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Paul Light, an expert on the federal workforce at New York University, recently estimated that five million people are working on federal contracts. Companies receiving the contracts employ security guards, food workers, janitors, etc. An analysis by the liberal Economic Policy Institute estimates that up to 390,000 workers will directly benefit.
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And although the number of workers directly affected by the increase is small as a share of the economy, the administration contends that the executive order will indirectly raise wages beyond federal contractors by forcing other employers to bid up pay as they compete for workers.
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The government requires that many employees of contractors be paid a prevailing wage — essentially the going rate for an occupation in a particular place, as determined by the Labor Department — but their pay will rise as a result of the order if the prevailing wage is less than $15 an hour. The current minimum is $10.95 under an order that President Barack Obama signed in 2014.