Electrician prevailing wage, Monterey County group, California (3 counties)

Davis-Bacon electrician rates in these counties

The counties share DIR's rates, but not always the same federal wage determination. When a California awarding body runs a federally funded or assisted project, DIR's rates must be paid where they are higher than the Davis-Bacon rates (DIR public works FAQ).

Scheduled increases

DIR has already set these increases. Work on or after each date is paid the higher rate. DIR often leaves part of an increase "to be allocated to wages and/or employer payments" and confirms the split when it comes due, and it can reduce a scheduled increase in a later notice, so check DIR's increase page before you pay it.

The double asterisk after DIR's expiration date means the next rate is already set. If the work runs past that date you have to pay the new rate, and DIR says to build it into contracts signed now (DIR FAQ, Q8).

Rate history since 2024

Total hourly rate for this classification in each DIR release. The chart under Scheduled increases above draws the same figures with the increases that follow.

Every electrician rate in the Monterey County group

As DIR lists them. The highlighted row is the one this page leads with.

How the Monterey County group compares

The main electrician rate in every county that has one, and how the pay splits here and in the nearest counties. All bars use the same scale.

Which county is in which electrician group

Every California county with a electrician rate. Counties DIR treats alike share one page; the rest have their own. You pay the rate for the county where the work is done, even if your shop is somewhere else.

9 groups of counties with identical DIR rates, and 19 counties with rates of their own. * County split between areas; its page shows the rate for each part.

California electrician prevailing wage by county, with a map

Footnotes on this rate

DIR's footnotes, in DIR's words. Several change the rate itself: zone pay, a percentage added to the total, or which overtime hours get which rate.

• Q All of Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito counties within twenty-five (25) air-miles of highway 1 and dolan road in moss landing, and an area extending five (5) miles east and west of highway 101 south to the San Luis Obispo county line. For wage rates in an area outside of this description, please contact the Office of the Director - Research Unit.
• R Contribution is factored at the applicable overtime multiplier for each overtime hour worked.
• S Contribution is factored at the applicable overtime multiplier for each overtime hour worked. In addition, an amount equal to 3% of the basic hourly rate is added to the total hourly rate and overtime hourly rates for the National Employees Benefit Board. Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1773.1 and 1773.8 the amount paid for this employer payment may vary resulting in a lower taxable basic hourly wage rate, but the total hourly rates for straight time and overtime may not be less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages.
• T Contribution is factored at the applicable overtime multiplier for each overtime hour worked. Includes an amount equal to 1.25% of the basic hourly rate for administrative maintenance fund
• U Rate applies to the first 2 daily overtime hours and the first 8 hours on Saturday only. All other time and work performed on a Saturday that immediately follows a designated holiday that is observed on a Friday are paid at the Sunday and holiday overtime hourly rate.

DIR's other marks: # means an apprenticeable craft, * means in effect until superseded, ** means the next rate is already set.