Calhoun County Prevailing Wage for December 2006

Trade Name           RG TYP C Base   FRMAN *M-F>8 OSA OSH H/W   Pensn  Vac  Trng  
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ASBESTOS ABT-GEN        ALL   24.250 24.750 1.5   1.5 2.0 5.050 6.750 0.000 0.600 
ASBESTOS ABT-MEC        BLD   25.290 26.290 1.5   1.5 2.0 4.450 2.500 0.000 0.250 
BOILERMAKER             BLD   27.750 30.250 1.5   1.5 2.0 6.820 10.28 0.000 0.210 
BRICK MASON             BLD   26.400 28.100 1.5   1.5 5.0 4.750 8.250 2.000 0.390 
CARPENTER               ALL   30.480 31.980 1.5   1.5 2.0 5.050 3.750 0.000 0.350 
CEMENT MASON            ALL   26.750 27.500 1.5   1.5 2.0 5.650 8.250 0.000 0.200 
CERAMIC TILE FNSHER     BLD   22.610  0.000 1.5   1.5 2.0 5.000 4.300 0.000 0.400 
ELECTRIC PWR EQMT OP    ALL   29.470 36.150 1.5   2.0 2.0 5.400 7.380 0.000 0.150 
ELECTRIC PWR GRNDMAN    ALL   19.820 36.150 1.5   2.0 2.0 5.400 4.960 0.000 0.100 
ELECTRIC PWR LINEMAN    ALL   34.120 36.150 1.5   2.0 2.0 5.400 8.530 0.000 0.170 
ELECTRIC PWR TRK DRV    ALL   22.060 36.150 1.5   2.0 2.0 5.400 5.530 0.000 0.110 
ELECTRICIAN             ALL   30.110 32.110 1.5   1.5 2.0 5.400 6.950 0.000 0.210 
ELECTRONIC SYS TECH     BLD   24.240 25.740 1.5   1.5 2.0 5.650 4.730 0.000 0.250 
FLOOR LAYER             BLD   26.930 27.680 1.5   1.5 2.0 5.000 3.750 0.000 0.350 
GLAZIER                 BLD   28.810  0.000 2.0   2.0 2.0 8.050 6.420 2.310 0.160 
HT/FROST INSULATOR      BLD   29.640 30.640 1.5   1.5 2.0 4.450 7.860 0.000 0.450 
IRON WORKER             ALL   26.350 27.850 1.5   1.5 2.0 6.360 8.250 0.000 0.420 
LABORER                 ALL   23.750 24.250 1.5   1.5 2.0 5.050 6.750 0.000 0.600 
MACHINIST               BLD   36.890 38.890 2.0   2.0 2.0 4.380 5.650 2.550 0.000 
MARBLE FINISHERS        BLD   22.610  0.000 1.5   1.5 2.0 5.000 4.300 0.000 0.400 
MILLWRIGHT              ALL   30.480 31.980 1.5   1.5 2.0 5.050 3.750 0.000 0.350 
OPERATING ENGINEER      ALL 1 25.900 27.030 1.5   1.5 2.0 6.200 11.45 0.000 1.000 
OPERATING ENGINEER      ALL 2 24.770 27.030 1.5   1.5 2.0 6.200 11.45 0.000 1.000 
OPERATING ENGINEER      ALL 3 20.290 27.030 1.5   1.5 2.0 6.200 11.45 0.000 1.000 
OPERATING ENGINEER      ALL 4 20.350 27.030 1.5   1.5 2.0 6.200 11.45 0.000 1.000 
OPERATING ENGINEER      ALL 5 20.020 27.030 1.5   1.5 2.0 6.200 11.45 0.000 1.000 
OPERATING ENGINEER      ALL 6 26.450 27.030 1.5   1.5 2.0 6.200 11.45 0.000 1.000 
OPERATING ENGINEER      ALL 7 26.750 27.030 1.5   1.5 2.0 6.200 11.45 0.000 1.000 
OPERATING ENGINEER      ALL 8 27.030 27.030 1.5   1.5 2.0 6.200 11.45 0.000 1.000 
PAINTER                 BLD   25.700 26.700 1.5   1.5 2.0 4.650 5.150 0.000 0.350 
PAINTER                 HWY   26.800 27.800 1.5   1.5 2.0 4.650 5.150 0.000 0.350 
PAINTER OVER 30FT       BLD   26.700 27.700 1.5   1.5 2.0 4.650 5.150 0.000 0.350 
PAINTER PWR EQMT        BLD   26.700 27.700 1.5   1.5 2.0 4.650 5.150 0.000 0.350 
PAINTER PWR EQMT        HWY   27.800 28.800 1.5   1.5 2.0 4.650 5.150 0.000 0.350 
PILEDRIVER              ALL   30.480 31.980 1.5   1.5 2.0 5.050 3.750 0.000 0.350 
PIPEFITTER              BLD   29.700 30.950 2.0   2.0 2.0 5.350 5.600 0.000 0.100 
PLASTERER               BLD   27.000 28.000 1.5   1.5 2.0 5.650 7.250 0.000 0.250 
PLUMBER                 BLD   29.700 30.950 2.0   2.0 2.0 5.350 5.600 0.000 0.100 
ROOFER                  BLD   26.250 28.250 1.5   1.5 2.0 6.100 5.950 0.000 0.200 
SHEETMETAL WORKER       BLD   24.150 25.710 1.5   1.5 2.0 6.040 7.000 0.000 0.380 
SPRINKLER FITTER        BLD   33.230 35.230 2.0   2.0 2.0 5.900 6.600 0.000 0.650 
TERRAZZO FINISHER       BLD   31.240  0.000 1.5   1.5 2.0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 
TERRAZZO MASON          BLD   30.780 31.080 1.5   1.5 2.0 0.000 3.750 0.000 0.000 
TRUCK DRIVER            ALL 1 25.930  0.000 1.5   1.5 2.0 7.250 3.425 0.000 0.000 
TRUCK DRIVER            ALL 2 26.330  0.000 1.5   1.5 2.0 7.250 3.425 0.000 0.000 
TRUCK DRIVER            ALL 3 26.530  0.000 1.5   1.5 2.0 7.250 3.425 0.000 0.000 
TRUCK DRIVER            ALL 4 26.780  0.000 1.5   1.5 2.0 7.250 3.425 0.000 0.000 
TRUCK DRIVER            ALL 5 27.530  0.000 1.5   1.5 2.0 7.250 3.425 0.000 0.000 
TRUCK DRIVER            O&C 1 20.740  0.000 1.5   1.5 2.0 7.250 3.425 0.000 0.000 
TRUCK DRIVER            O&C 2 21.060  0.000 1.5   1.5 2.0 7.250 3.425 0.000 0.000 
TRUCK DRIVER            O&C 3 21.220  0.000 1.5   1.5 2.0 7.250 3.425 0.000 0.000 
TRUCK DRIVER            O&C 4 21.420  0.000 1.5   1.5 2.0 7.250 3.425 0.000 0.000 
TRUCK DRIVER            O&C 5 22.020  0.000 1.5   1.5 2.0 7.250 3.425 0.000 0.000 

Legend:  M-F>8 (Overtime is required for any hour greater than 8 worked
each day, Monday through Friday.
OSA  (Overtime is required for every hour worked on Saturday)
OSH  (Overtime is required for every hour worked on Sunday and Holidays)
H/W  (Health & Welfare Insurance)
Pensn (Pension)
Vac (Vacation)
Trng (Training)

        

Explanations

CALHOUN COUNTY

The following list is considered as those days for which holiday rates
of wages for work performed apply: New Years Day, Memorial/Decoration
Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day,
Christmas Day. Generally, any of these holidays which fall on a Sunday
is celebrated on the following Monday.  This then makes work performed
on that Monday payable at the appropriate overtime rate for holiday
pay.  Common practice in a given local may alter certain days of
celebration such as the day after Thanksgiving for Veterans Day.  If
in doubt, please check with IDOL.

Oil and chip resealing (O&C) means the application of road oils and
liquid asphalt to coat an existing road surface, followed by
application of aggregate chips or gravel to coated surface, and
subsequent rolling of material to seal the surface.

EXPLANATION OF CLASSES

ASBESTOS - GENERAL - removal of asbestos material/mold and hazardous
materials from any place in a building, including mechanical systems
where those mechanical systems are to be removed.  This includes the
removal of asbestos materials/mold and hazardous materials from
ductwork or pipes in a building when the building is to be demolished
at the time or at some close future date.

ASBESTOS - MECHANICAL - removal of asbestos material from mechanical
systems, such as pipes, ducts, and boilers, where the mechanical
systems are to  remain.

CERAMIC TILE FINISHER AND MARBLE FINISHER

The handling, at the building site, of all sand, cement, tile, marble
or stone and all other materials that may be used and installed by [a]
tile layer or marble mason.  In addition, the grouting, cleaning,
sealing, and mixing on the job site, and all other work as required in
assisting the setter.  The term "Ceramic" is used for naming the
classification only and is in no way a limitation of the product
handled.  Ceramic takes into consideration most hard tiles.

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN

Installation, service and maintenance of low-voltage systems which
utilizes the transmission and/or transference of voice, sound, vision,
or digital for commercial, education, security and entertainment
purposes for the following:  TV monitoring and surveillance,
background/foreground music, intercom and telephone interconnect,
field programming, inventory control systems, microwave transmission,
multi-media, multiplex, radio page, school, intercom and sound burglar
alarms and low voltage master clock systems.

Excluded from this classification are energy management systems, life
safety systems, supervisory controls and data acquisition systems not
intrinsic with the above listed systems, fire alarm systems, nurse
call systems and raceways exceeding fifteen feet in length.


TRUCK DRIVER - BUILDING, HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
Class 1.  Drivers on 2 axle trucks hauling less than 9 ton.  Air
compressor and welding machines and brooms, including those pulled by
separate units, truck driver  helpers, warehouse employees, mechanic
helpers, greasers and tiremen, pickup trucks when hauling materials,
tools, or workers to and from and on-the-job  site, and fork lifts up
to 6,000 lb. capacity.

Class 2.  Two or three axle trucks hauling more than 9 ton but hauling
less than 16 ton.  A-frame winch trucks, hydrolift trucks, vactor
trucks or similar  equipment when used for transportation purposes.
Fork lifts over 6,000 lb. capacity, winch trucks, four axle
combination units, and ticket writers.

Class 3.  Two, three or four axle trucks hauling 16 ton or more.
Drivers on water pulls, articulated dump trucks, mechanics and working
forepersons, and  dispatchers.  Five axle or more combination units.

Class 4.  Low Boy and Oil Distributors.

Class 5.  Drivers who require special protective clothing while
employed on hazardous waste work.

TRUCK DRIVER - OIL AND CHIP RESEALING ONLY.

This shall encompass laborers, workers and mechanics who drive
contractor or subcontractor owned, leased, or hired pickup, dump,
service, or oil distributor trucks.  The work includes transporting
materials and equipment (including but not limited to, oils, aggregate
supplies, parts, machinery and tools) to or from the job site;
distributing oil or liquid asphalt and aggregate; stock piling
material when in connectin with the actual oil and chip contract.  The
Truck Driver (Oil & Chip Resealing) wage classification does not
include supplier delivered materials.

OPERATING ENGINEERS

GROUP I.  Cranes, Dragline, Shovels, Skimmer Scoops, Clamshells or
Derrick Boats, Pile Drivers, Crane-Type Backhoes, Asphalt Plant
Operators, Concrete Plant  Operators, Dredges, Asphalt Spreading
Machines, All Locomotives, Cable Ways, or Tower Machines, Hoists,
Hydraulic Backhoes, Ditching Machines or Backfiller,  Cherrypickers,
Overhead Cranes, Roller, Steam or Gas, Concrete Pavers, Excavators,
Concrete Breakers, Concrete Pumps, Bulk Cement Plants, Cement Pumps,
Derrick-Type Drills, Boat Operators, Motor Graders or Pushcats, Scoops
or Tournapulls, Bulldozers, Endloaders or Fork Lifts, Power Blade or
Elevating Graders,  Winch Cats, Boom or Winch Trucks or Boom Tractors,
Pipe Wrapping or Painting Machines, Asphalt Plant Engineer, Journeyman
Lubricating Engineer, Drills (other  than Derrick Type), Mud Jacks, or
Well Drilling Machines, Boring Machines or Track Jacks, Mixers,
Conveyors (Two), Air Compressors (Two), Water Pumps  regardless of
size (Two), Welding Machines (Two), Siphons or Jets (Two), Winch Heads
or Apparatuses (Two), Light Plants (Two), Waterblasters (two), All
Tractors regardless of size (straight tractor only), Fireman on
Stationary Boilers, Automatic Elevators, Form Grading Machines,
Finishing Machines, Power  Sub-Grader or Ribbon Machines, Longitudinal
Floats,  Distributor Operators on Trucks, Winch Heads or Apparatuses
(One), Mobil Track air and heaters (two to  five), Heavy Equipment
Greaser, Relief Operator, Assistant Master Mechanic and Heavy Duty
Mechanic, all Operators (except those listed below).

GROUP II.  Assistant Operators.

GROUP III.  Air Compressors (One), Water Pumps, regardless of Size
(One), Waterblasters (one), Welding Machine (One), Mixers (One Bag),
Conveyor (One), Siphon  or Jet (One), Light Plant (One), Heater (One),
Immobile Track Air (One), and Self Propelled Walk-Behind Rollers.

GROUP IV.  Asphalt Spreader Oilers, Fireman on Whirlies and Heavy
Equipment Oilers, Truck Cranes, Dredges, Monigans, Large Cranes -
(Over 65-ton rated  capacity) Concrete Plant Oiler, Blacktop Plant
Oiler, and Creter Crane Oiler (when required).

GROUP V.  Oiler.

GROUP VI.  Master Mechanics, Operators on equipment with Booms,
including jibs, 100 feet and over, and less than 150 feet long

GROUP VII.  Operators on equipment with Booms, including jibs, 150
feet and over, and less than 200 feet long.

GROUP VIII.  Operators on Equipment with Booms, including jibs, 200
feet and over; Tower Cranes; Whirlie Cranes; and Operator Foreman.

TERRAZZO FINISHER

The handling of all materials used for Mosaic and Terrazzo work
including preparing, mixing by hand, by mixing machine or transporting
of pre-mixed materials and distributing with shovel, rake, hoe, or
pail, all kinds of concrete foundations necessary for Mosaic and
Terrazzo work, all cement terrazzo, magnesite terrazzo, Do-O-Tex
terrazzo, epoxy matrix ter-razzo, exposed aggregate, rustic or rough
washed for exterior or interior of buildings placed either by machine
or by hand, and any other kind of mixture of plastics composed of
chips or granules when mixed with cement, rubber, neoprene, vinyl,
magnesium chloride or any other resinous or chemical substances used
for seamless flooring systems, and all other building materials, all
similar materials and all precast terrazzo work on jobs, all scratch
coat used for Mosaic and Terrazzo work and sub-bed, tar paper and wire
mesh (2x2 etc.) or lath.  The rubbing, grinding, cleaning and
finishing of same either by hand or by machine or by terrazzo
resurfacing equipment on new or existing floors.  When necessary
finishers shall be allowed to assist the mechanics to spread sand bed,
lay tarpaper and wire mesh (2x2 etc.) or lath.  The finishing of
cement floors where additional aggregate of stone is added by
spreading or sprinkling on top of the finished base, and troweled or
rolled into the finish and then the surface is ground by grinding
machines.


Other Classifications of Work:

For definitions of classifications not otherwise set out, the
Department generally has on file such definitions which are available.
If a task to be performed is not subject to one of the classifications
of pay set out, the Department will  upon being contacted state which
neighboring county has such a classification and provide such rate,
such rate being deemed to exist by reference in this  document.  If no
neighboring county rate applies to the task, the Department shall
undertake a special determination, such special determination  being
then deemed to have existed under this determination.  If a project
requires these, or any classification not listed, please contact IDOL
at 618/993-7271 for  wage rates or clarifications.

LANDSCAPING

Landscaping work falls under the existing classifications for laborer,
operating engineer and truck driver.  The work performed by landscape
plantsman and  landscape laborer is covered by the existing
classification of laborer.  The work performed by landscape operators
(regardless of equipment used or its size) is  covered by the
classifications of operating engineer.  The work performed by
landscape truck drivers (regardless of size of truck driven) is
covered by the  classifications of truck driver.