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Today is last day to complete 2021 Prevailing Wage Study
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Posted on Mar 31 2021
Today, March 31, is the last day to complete the 2021 Prevailing Wage Survey.
If you are an employer who has any staff at your establishment and if you haven’t already completed the survey, do so as soon as possible. It takes only about two minutes per staff member to fill it out. All private businesses, public agencies, and organizations in the CNMI are urged to participate in the 2021 PWS survey.
The survey data collection period began last March 1, 2021, and ends today, March 31, 2021.
The Central Statistics Division of the CNMI Department of Commerce first announced last Feb. 23, 2021, the beginning of data collection for the 2021 CNMI Prevailing Wage Study to produce the hourly wage statistics for 2021. Like the 2020 PWS, the 2021 data is submitted through a Web portal. Businesses and organizations can access it through cnmidata.commerce.gov.mp.
For companies, agencies, and organizations who registered and participated in the 2020 PWS survey, simply use your username and password that you created in 2020 to login to the portal, update your company/agency/organization information, and submit your employee data for 2021.
For everyone else who will submit survey data for the first time via the CNMI PWS portal, you will be prompted to create a username and a password. Creating your username and password registers you into the site and allows you to provide basic directory information about your company/agency/organization and submit the requested employee data for the survey.
Be sure to allow yourself time to review and understand the survey instructions provided on the portal before proceeding to complete the survey.
The 2018 NMI US Workforce Act requires the CNMI to publish a prevailing wage report annually for CW-1 visa determination and approval by the U.S. Department of Labor. The 2021 PWS data will also be used to publish a separate report detailing the survey methodology with a more detailed occupational wage statistics for PERM, H-1B and H-2B determination and approval by the U.S. Department of Labor.
This will be the CNMI’s sixth round of the prevailing wage survey, but is the third annual PWS survey since 2019 under the mandate of the 2018 Workforce Act. (PR)
