# Hawaii — State prevailing wage law applicability thresholds

For Hawaii, has a prevailing wage law is Yes; dollar threshold is $2,000; covered project types is construction of a public work project to which a governmental contracting agency is a party; funding scope is state and local (governmental contracting agency); administering agency is Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, recorded from its source on 2026-08-15.

- **State:** Hawaii _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Has a prevailing wage law:** Yes _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Dollar threshold:** $2,000 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Covered project types:** construction of a public work project to which a governmental contracting agency is a party _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Funding scope:** state and local (governmental contracting agency) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Administering agency:** Department of Labor and Industrial Relations _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statute:** HRS §104-2 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> This chapter shall apply to every contract in excess of $2,000 for construction of a public work project to which a governmental contracting agency is a party; provided that this chapter shall not apply to experimental and demonstration housing developed pursuant to section 46-15 or housing developed pursuant to chapter 201H if the cost of the project is less than $500,000 and the eligible bidder or eligible developer is a private nonprofit corporation.

## Source

- https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol02_Ch0046-0115/HRS0104/HRS_0104-0002.htm

Last verified: 2026-08-15. Review by: 2027-08-15.
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