Prevailing Wage Rate Calculator

Version 3.0.

What's new?

Updated May 6, 2022

How much does your Building Staff cost?

Use our calculator to find out how much your Super, Handyperson or Porter actually costs

(Rates Effective for Period: July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022)

From the OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER, CITY OF NEW YORK, the new Prevailing Wages and Supplemental Benefits rates are available.  This means that buildings that fall into a certain category are required by law to pay their Handyperson, Porter or Elevator Operator a "prevailing wage." This includes a hourly rate, as well as a supplemental benefits rate, which covers sick days, personal days, vacation days and holiday pay. For the full publication, see our uploaded PDF Publication below.

To make things a bit easier for you to calculate the Prevailing Wages of your building staff, we created an online calculator below. Moreover, it covers: 

  1. 1
    Employer's taxes, which is over and beyond the total gross wages you pay;
  2. 2
    Workers Compensation and Disability Insurance, which covers things like job-related injuries
  3. 3
    Holiday Pay, Vacation Pay and other benefits
  4. 4
    Apartment + Paid Utilities, for "live-in" staff members

Version 3.0 - published May 6, 2022

  • Integrated "Annualization" for calculating the offset amount (against the supplemental benefits rate) due to any existing Employer's benefits

Version 2.0 - published March 21, 2022

  • Added Security Guard (unarmed) as option
  • Ability to add or remove Holidays
  • Show Days, Weeks and Month of Employment

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