Some business groups and contractor organizations consider a prevailing wage requirement to be anti-competition and believe that the free market should play a major role in deciding rates of pay beyond minimum wage. The anti-prevailing wage position is also often a part of pro-business agendas, with wage-protection detractors arguing that these regulations are bad for state and local economies because they discourage companies from wanting to do business in those locations. Some groups have also labeled prevailing wage laws as money-wasters.
