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Tile Setter prevailing wage, Sacramento County group, California (16 counties)

DIR sets the same tile setter rates, row for row, in 16 counties: Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Shasta, Sierra, Sutter, Tehama, Yolo and Yuba. Every figure on this page applies in each of them.

$83.68an hour, base wage + fringe benefits

$55.95 base wage + $27.73 fringe benefits

On California public works in each of these 16 counties, a tile setter must be paid at least $83.68 an hour in total: $55.95 in wages plus $27.73 in employer payments to health, pension, training and other funds. Daily overtime is $111.66 and Sunday and holiday work is $139.63.

DIR general determination 018-3-7, issued August 22, 2026. Expires March 31, 2027. Checked against dir.ca.gov on October 24, 2026.

Base wage and fringe benefits: $55.95 + $27.73

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 $83.68 or more.

Basic hourly rate (taxable wage)	$55.95
Health and welfare	$13.50
Pension	$8.59
Vacation and holiday	$2.75
Training	$0.75
Other payments	$2.14
Total straight-time hourly rate	$83.68

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 018-3-7, issued August 22, 2026; DIR's expiration date for it is March 31, 2027.

Scheduled increases

$77.90$80.68$83.68now$87.18Apr 1, 2027

DIR releases since 2024Increases DIR has already set

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.

Takes effect	Increase per hour	Total after increase
April 1, 2027	+$3.50	$87.18

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 above draws the same figures with the increases that follow.

Release	Total	Change
2024-2	$77.90
2025-1	$77.90	no change
2025-2	$80.68	+$2.78
2026-1	$80.68	no change
2026-2	$83.68	+$3.00

Davis-Bacon tile setter 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).

County	Federal classification	Base + fringe	WD	vs DIR
Butte County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match
Colusa County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match
El Dorado County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match
Glenn County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match
Lassen County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match
Modoc County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match
Nevada County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match
Placer County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match
Plumas County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match
Sacramento County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match
Shasta County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match
Sierra County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match
Sutter County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match
Tehama County	No federal row for this trade
Yolo County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match
Yuba County	Federal rates listed on the county page; no one-to-one match

How the Sacramento County group compares

The main tile setter 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

Sacramento $83.68186315

$79.13Imperial$89.59Alameda

SacramentoNearby: Butte $83.68, Colusa $83.68, El Dorado $83.68, Glenn $83.68, Lassen $83.68, Modoc $83.68, Nevada $83.68, Placer $83.68, Plumas $83.68, Shasta $83.68, Sierra $83.68, Sutter $83.68, Tehama $83.68, Yolo $83.68, Yuba $83.68Each column is a group of counties with about the same main rate; its height is how many. 24 counties pay more than Sacramento, 15 the same, 18 less.

Base wage and fringe benefits, nearby

Sacramento County groupbase $55.95$83.68
Solano Countybase $60.44$89.59
Yolo Countybase $55.95$83.68
San Joaquin Countybase $56.07$84.74

Which county is in which tile setter group

Every California county with a tile setter 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.

Counties	Main classification	Base wage	Total rate
Santa Clara County group, 15 counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Siskiyou, Solano, Trinity	Tile Setter	$60.44	$89.59
Sonoma County group, 3 counties: Lake, Mendocino, Sonoma	Tile Setter	$57.45	$86.38
San Joaquin County group, 6 counties: Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tuolumne	Tile Setter	$56.07	$84.74
Sacramento County group, 16 counties: Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Shasta, Sierra, Sutter, Tehama, Yolo, Yuba	Tile Setter	$55.95	$83.68
Fresno County group, 6 counties: Fresno, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Tulare	Tile Setter	$51.09	$79.38
Los Angeles County group, 12 counties: Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura	Tile Layer	$56.52	$79.13

6 groups of counties with identical DIR rates, and 0 counties with rates of their own.

California tile setter 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.

BB Includes amount withheld for dues check off, which is factored in the overtime rates. Any employee working underground shall receive $1.00 per hour in addition to regular wages.
D Saturdays in the same work week may be worked at straight-time if job is shut down during the normal workweek due to inclement weather.
H Rate applies to the first 8 hours worked on Saturday. All other hours are paid at the Sunday/holiday rate.

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

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 $83.68. 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 018-3-7. DIR prints it in one file per county:

Each figure is copied from DIR's file and checked by a second, separate reader. How we check · How to read a determination · Download every California rate as CSV · Report an error