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Metal Roofing Installer prevailing wage in Santa Clara County, California
$140.34an hour, base wage + fringe benefits · Metal Roofing Systems Installer
$81.34 base wage + $59.00 fringe benefits
Santa Clara County uses the same metal roofing installer rates as 2 other counties. See all of them on one page.
On California public works in Santa Clara County, a metal roofing installer working as metal roofing systems installer must be paid at least $140.34 an hour in total: $81.34 in wages plus $59.00 in employer payments to health, pension, training and other funds. Daily overtime is $186.54 and Sunday and holiday work is $232.73.
DIR general determination C-MR-2026-2J, issued August 22, 2026. Expires June 27, 2027. Checked against dir.ca.gov on October 24, 2026.
Base wage and fringe benefits: $81.34 + $59.00
The basic hourly rate is the taxable wage. The other lines, the fringe benefits DIR calls employer payments, are what DIR expects the employer to pay into health, pension and other plans for each hour worked. An employer can pay part of that as extra wages instead, as long as the total per hour stays at $140.34 or more.
| Basic hourly rate (taxable wage) (footnote a) | $81.34 |
| Health and welfare (footnote b) | $20.44 |
| Pension (footnote c) | $35.67 |
| Training | $1.78 |
| Other payments | $1.11 |
| Total straight-time hourly rate | $140.34 |
Vacation and holiday is $0.00 in DIR's table. Footnote d says where that money is counted.
Straight time covers an 8-hour day.
When does this rate change?
- A project pays the rates in effect on its bid advertisement date for the life of the job, plus any increase DIR set in advance (DIR FAQ).
- DIR issues new determinations on February 22 and August 22, and they take effect 10 days later. This rate is from determination C-MR-2026-2J, issued August 22, 2026; DIR's expiration date for it is June 27, 2027.
Scheduled increases
DIR has scheduled an increase for this rate, but it's in a regional PDF we haven't matched to this classification yet. The amounts are in DIR's increase file.
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).
Source: DIR increase PDF
Davis-Bacon metal roofing installer rate in Santa Clara County
Federally funded or assisted construction here uses the U.S. Department of Labor's wage determinations. 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).
The federal determinations for Santa Clara County list no metal roofing installer classification.
Davis-Bacon rates from SAM.gov, read October 25, 2026. Our federal totals are base plus fringe; DOL prints no total. California Davis-Bacon changes
How Santa Clara County compares
The main metal roofing installer rate in every county that has one, and how the pay splits here and in the nearest counties. All bars use the same scale.
Every county in California
Base wage and fringe benefits, nearby
- Santa Clara Countybase $81.34$140.34
- Alameda Countybase $55.00$86.42
- San Mateo Countybase $81.34$140.34
- Stanislaus Countybase $32.84$48.04
Metal Roofing Installer rates in nearby counties
Current DIR rates. You pay the rate for the county where the work is done, even if your shop is somewhere else.
DIR's metal roofing installer rates for Santa Clara County are the same as in 2 other counties: San Francisco, San Mateo.
| County | Classification | Base wage | Total rate | vs Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Clara County | Metal Roofing Systems Installer | $81.34 | $140.34 | |
| San Mateo County | Metal Roofing Systems Installer | $81.34 | $140.34 | same |
| San Francisco County | Metal Roofing Systems Installer | $81.34 | $140.34 | same |
| Alameda County | Metal Roofing Systems Installer | $55.00 | $86.42 | −$53.92 |
| Contra Costa County | Metal Roofing Systems Installer | $55.00 | $86.42 | −$53.92 |
| San Joaquin County | Metal Roofing Systems Installer | $49.65 | $71.84 | −$68.50 |
| Stanislaus County | Metal Roofing Systems Installer | $32.84 | $48.04 | −$92.30 |
California metal roofing installer 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.
- a Includes amount for Vacation/Holiday and Dues Check Off.
- b Includes SMOHIT and SHC. Effective 1/1/2013, 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. Includes an amount for Health & Welfare that is factored at the applicable overtime multiplier.
- c Includes an amount for Pension which is factored at the applicable overtime multiplier. 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.
- d Included in Straight-Time Hourly Rate.
- e For San Francisco County, the Straight-Time Hours is 7 hours.
- f For San Francisco County: Rate applies to the first 2 daily overtime hours and the first 7 hours on Saturday only. All other time is paid at the Sunday and Holiday overtime hourly rate. For San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties: Rate applies to the first 2 daily overtime hours and the first 8 hours on Saturday only. All other time is 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.
More from DIR on this rate
- Holidays (DIR PDF)
- Scope of work: which tasks this rate covers
- Travel and subsistence
- Apprentice rates: DIR publishes these separately, by program. Look them up on DIR.
Are you being paid this rate?
Add your hourly wage to what your employer pays into health, pension and other plans for you, and compare it with $140.34. Plan payments only count if the money goes into the plan; your pay stub won't show them, but plan statements will. The training amount goes to the California Apprenticeship Council or an apprenticeship program, not to you. Check a week of pay.
Contractors on most public works jobs file certified payroll with the state, and anyone can look it up in DIR's CPR public search. If your total comes up short, you can file a public works complaint with the California Labor Commissioner.
Source
California Department of Industrial Relations, general prevailing wage determination C-MR-2026-2J, page 1: www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/2026-2/PWD/Determinations/Statewide/C-MR-J.pdf
Each figure is copied from DIR's file and checked by a second, separate reader. How we check · How to read a determination · Download Santa Clara County as CSV · Report an error