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The challenge often confronted by the clients (owners of buildings and contractors) in housing sector of Assam that they require paying different wage rates to the workers serving in identical skill jobs. Due to such confusion, they get difficulty in estimating the fund need to be paid to the workers in advance and suffer a sizeable amount in vain. Despite the government of the state have fixed the minimum wage rates for workers as per skill category for both rural and urban areas , in practice, the uniformity in the payment of such wage rates to the workers is hardly found, particularly in the private housing sector of the state .The state fixed wage rates not only differ from the market prevailing ones, the disparity in payment of the wage rates to the workers in same/identical skill jobs has been observed either in same or different geographical areas of the state. Against this backdrop, an attempt has been made to examine the degree of inequality in wage distribution among the construction workers in urban housing sector of the state. This has been done mainly through examining the wage inequality with respect to job, labour quality and geographical areas.