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Prevailing wage rates in Coles County, Illinois

IDOL's schedule for work performed on or after October 19, 2026 sets 57 rates across 32 trades for public works in Coles County. Of each trade's main rate, elevator constructor is the highest at $104.34 an hour in base wage plus fringes, and painter the lowest at $62.79.

IDOL's Coles County schedule, posted October 19, 2026. Illinois rates don't lock at bid: a revised rate applies to contracts already under way from its effective date (820 ILCS 130/4(l)). IDOL prints no total, so each total here is base plus fringes, added by us. Checked against labor.illinois.gov on October 24, 2026.

Coles County rates by trade, highest first

Each trade's main rate, highest first, split into the taxable wage and the fringe benefits IDOL lists. All bars share one scale. The table below lists the same rates A to Z with classifications.

  1. Elevator Constructor$104.34
  2. Utility Lineman$96.96
  3. Machinist$89.59
  4. Boilermaker$84.84
  5. Sheet Metal Worker$81.27
  6. Plumber / Pipefitter$80.98
  7. Operating Engineer$77.60
  8. Pile Driver$76.92
  9. Electrician$75.86
  10. Millwright$75.44
  11. Carpenter$74.92
  12. Drywall Installer / Lather$74.92
  13. Teamster (Truck Driver)$72.91
  14. Bricklayer$71.18
  15. Tuckpointer$71.18
  16. Fence Builder$68.29
  17. Ironworker$68.29
  18. Glazier$67.65
  19. Plasterer$67.45
  20. Abatement Laborer$67.33
  21. Cement Mason$66.94
  22. Roofer$65.05
  23. Heat & Frost Insulator$65.01
  24. Marble Mason$64.96
  25. Terrazzo Worker$64.96
  26. Tile Setter$64.96
  27. Laborer$64.23
  28. Telecom Technician$64.10
  29. Marble Finisher$63.02
  30. Terrazzo Finisher$63.02
  31. Tile Finisher$63.02
  32. Painter$62.79

All trades and classifications, A to Z

One main rate per trade, with its classification and base wage. Open a trade for its other classifications, overtime, work types and regions. Click a column heading to sort.

TradeMain classificationBase + fringesBaseRates
Asbestos & Lead Abatement Laborer · Shelby County groupAsbestos ABT-GEN (building)$67.33 $38.00 1
Boilermaker · Madison County groupBoilermaker (building)$84.84 $48.00 1
Bricklayer · Champaign County groupBrick Mason (building)$71.18 $40.00 2
Carpenter · Champaign County groupCarpenter (building)$74.92 $42.97 2
Cement Mason · Champaign County groupCement Mason (building)$66.94 $41.89 2
Drywall Installer / Lather · Champaign County groupLather (building)$74.92 $42.97 1
Electrical Utility Lineman · Washington County groupElectric Pwr Lineman$96.96 $68.30 4
Electrician · Christian County groupElectrician (building)$75.86 $50.00 1
Elevator Constructor · Champaign County groupElevator Constructor (building)$104.34 $60.52 1
Fence Builder · Edgar County groupFence Erector$68.29 $42.00 1
Glazier · Champaign County groupGlazier (building)$67.65 $44.02 1
Insulator (Heat & Frost / Asbestos Worker) · Franklin County groupHeat/Frost Insulator (building)$65.01 $40.19 2
Ironworker · Edgar County groupIron Worker$68.29 $42.00 1
Laborer · Shelby County groupLaborer (building)$64.23 $35.00 2
Machinist · Cook County groupMachinist (building)$89.59 $61.89 1
Marble Finisher · Champaign County groupMarble Finisher (building)$63.02 $37.34 1
Marble Mason · Champaign County groupMarble Mason (building)$64.96 $38.94 1
Millwright · Champaign County groupMillwright (building)$75.44 $40.50 2
Operating Engineer · Champaign County groupOperating Engineer, Class 1$77.60 $48.15 3
Painter · Champaign County groupPainter$62.79 $43.57 2
Pile Driver · Champaign County groupPiledriver (building)$76.92 $44.97 2
Plasterer · Champaign County groupPlasterer (building)$67.45 $40.05 1
Plumber / Pipefitter · Champaign County groupPlumber (building)$80.98 $56.26 3
Roofer · Champaign County groupRoofer (building)$65.05 $38.71 1
Sheet Metal Worker · Champaign County groupSheetmetal Worker (building)$81.27 $48.00 1
Teamster (Truck Driver) · Champaign County groupTruck Driver, Class 1$72.91 $48.17 10
Telecommunications Technician · Macon County groupElectronic System Tech (building)$64.10 $41.96 1
Terrazzo Finisher · Champaign County groupTerrazzo Finisher (building)$63.02 $37.34 1
Terrazzo Worker · Champaign County groupTerrazzo Mason (building)$64.96 $38.94 1
Tile Finisher · Champaign County groupCeramic Tile Finisher (building)$63.02 $37.34 1
Tile Setter · Adams County groupTile Mason (building)$64.96 $38.94 2
Tuckpointer · Champaign County groupTuckpointer (building)$71.18 $40.00 1

IDOL's notes for Coles County

Copied from the “Explanations” part of the county schedule. They define the holidays, oil and chip work, and the boundaries of any regions inside the county.

Explanations

The following list is considered as those days for which holiday rates of wages for work performed apply: New Years Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and Veterans Day in some classifications/counties. 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. 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 (4 sections)

CERAMIC TILE FINISHER, MARBLE FINISHER, TERRAZZO FINISHER Assisting, helping or supporting the tile, marble and terrazzo mechanic by performing their historic and traditional work assignments required to complete the proper installation of the work covered by said crafts. 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 connection with the actual oil and chip contract. The Truck Driver (Oil & Chip Resealing) wage classification does not include supplier delivered materials. OPERATING ENGINEERS - BUILDING, HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION Class 1. Draglines, Derricks, Shovels, Gradalls, Mechanics, Tractor Highlift, Tournadozer, Concrete Mixers with Skip, Tournamixer, Two Drum Machine, One Drum Hoist with Tower or Boom, Cableways, Tower Machines, Motor Patrol, Boom Tractor, Boom or Winch Truck, Winch or Hydraulic Boom Truck, Tournapull, Tractor Operating Scoops, Bulldozer, Push Tractor, Asphalt Planer, Finishing Machine on Asphalt, Large Rollers on Earth, Rollers on Asphalt Mix, Ross Carrier or similar Machine, Gravel Processing Machine, Asphalt Plant Engineer, Paver Operator, Dredging Equipment, or Dredge Engineer, or Dredge Operator, Central Mix Plant Engineer, CMI or similar type machine, Concrete Pump, Truck or Skid Mounted, Engineer or Rock Crusher Plant, Concrete Plant Engineer, Ditching Machine with dual attachment, Tractor Mounted Loaders, Hydro Crane, Standard or Dinkey Locomotives, Scoopmobiles, Euclid Loader, Soil Cement Machine, Back Filler, Elevating Machine, Power Blade, Drilling Machine, including Well Testing, Caissons, Shaft or any similar type drilling machines, Motor Driven Paint Machine, Pipe Cleaning Machine, Pipe Wrapping Machine, Pipe Bending Machine, Apsco Paver, Boring Machine, (Head Equipment Greaser), Barber-Greene Loaders, Formless Paver, (Well Point System), Concrete Spreader, Hydra Ax, Span Saw, Marine Scoops, Brush Mulcher, Brush Burner, Mesh Placer, Tree Mover, Helicopter Crew (3), Piledriver-Skid or Crawler, Stump Remover, Root Rake, Tug Boat Operator, Refrigerating Machine, Freezing Operator, Chair Cart- Self-Propelled, Hydra Seeder, Straw Blower, Power Sub Grader, Bull Float, Finishing Machine, Self-Propelled Pavement Breaker, Lull (or similar type Machine), Two Air Compressors, Compressors hooked in Manifold, Chip Spreader, Mud Cat, Sull-Air, Fork Lifts (except when used for landscaping work), Soil Stabilizer (Seaman Tiller, Bo Mag, Rago Gator, and similar types of equipment), Tube Float, Spray Machine, Curing Machine, Concrete or Asphalt Milling Machine, Snooper Truck-Operator, Backhoe, Farm Tractors (with attachments), 4 Point Lift System (Power Lift or similar type), Skid-Steer (Bob Cat or similar type), Wrecking Shears, Water Blaster. Class 2. Concrete Mixers without Skips, Rock Crusher, Ditching Machine under 6', Curbing Machine, One Drum Machines without Tower or Boom, Air Tugger, Self-Propelled Concrete Saw, Machine Mounted Post Hole Digger, two to four Generators, Water Pumps or Welding Machines, within 400 feet, Air Compressor 600 cu. ft. and under, Rollers on Aggregate and Seal Coat Surfaces, Fork Lift (when used for landscaping work), Concrete and Blacktop Curb Machine, One Water Pump, Oilers, Air Valves or Steam Valves, One Welding Machine, Truck Jack, Mud Jack, Gunnite Machine, House Elevators when used for hoisting material, Engine Tenders, Fireman, Wagon Drill, Flex Plane, Conveyor, Siphons and Pulsometer, Switchman, Fireman on Paint Pots, Fireman on Asphalt Plants, Distributor Operator on Trucks, Tampers, Self-Propelled Power Broom, Striping Machine (motor driven), Form Tamper, Bulk Cement Plant, Equipment Greaser, Deck Hands, Truck Crane Oiler-Driver, Cement Blimps, Form Grader, Temporary Heat, Throttle Valve, Super Sucker (and similar type of equipment). Class 3. Power Cranes, Truck or Crawler Crane, Rough Terrain Crane (Cherry Picker), Tower Crane, Overhead Crane. 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 217-782-1710 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.

Work that no listed trade covers: IDOL “will … state which neighboring county has such a classification”. Call IDOL at 217-782-1710.

Davis-Bacon wage determinations for Coles County

Federally funded or assisted construction here uses the U.S. Department of Labor's rates. When a contract requires both the state rate and the Davis-Bacon rate, paying the higher of the two meets both. The contract documents say which apply. Each trade's page shows its federal rate next to IDOL's.

ConstructionWage determinationModificationPublished
BuildingIL202600024May 18, 2026
ResidentialIL202600621May 18, 2026
HighwayIL20260015
Heavy Construction Highway Construction
2July 30, 2026
HeavyIL20260015
Heavy Construction Highway Construction
2July 30, 2026

Specialty WDs also cover Coles County for narrow kinds of work, and don't stand in for the rates above: IL20260018 (ILLINOIS, INDIANA, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, NEW YORK, OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA AND WISCONSIN / DREDG); IL20260019 (Dredging Construction Projects: Dredging the following rivers and their tributaries, the K).

What changed in these determinations this year

Questions about Coles County rates

How much does an electrician make on prevailing wage in Coles County?

$75.86 an hour: a $50.00 base wage plus $25.86 in fringe benefits, for the main classification, under IDOL's county schedule. Overtime and every electrician rate in Coles County.

What is the prevailing wage for a laborer in Coles County?

$64.23 an hour: a $35.00 base wage plus $29.23 in fringe benefits, for the main classification, under IDOL's county schedule. Overtime and every laborer rate in Coles County.

Does the prevailing wage include fringe benefits?

Yes. The rate is a base wage plus fringe benefits, and the employer owes both for every hour. For elevator constructor, the highest-paid trade in Coles County, the $104.34 total is a $60.52 base wage plus $43.82 in fringe benefits.

Do Davis-Bacon rates apply in Coles County?

On federally funded or assisted construction, yes: IL20260002 (modification 4, May 18, 2026) for building construction, IL20260062 (modification 1, May 18, 2026) for residential construction and IL20260015 (modification 2, July 30, 2026) for highway and heavy construction. When a contract requires both the state rate and the Davis-Bacon rate, paying the higher of the two meets both. The contract documents say which apply.

Does Coles County share its rates with other counties?

For 32 of its 32 trades, yes: IDOL sets the same rates, row for row, in other counties too. Electrician rates, for example, are the same in 7 counties (the Christian County group).