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Prevailing wage rates in DuPage County, Illinois

IDOL's schedule for work performed on or after October 19, 2026 sets 67 prevailing wage rates for 36 trades on public works in DuPage County. Each trade's main rate runs from $67.03 an hour (striping and traffic control worker) to $121.85 (operating engineer), base wage plus fringe benefits.

DuPage County prevailing wage by trade, A to Z

36 trades
TradeBase wageFringe benefitsTotal rateEffectiveSource
$53.00 $39.11 $92.11 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
BoilermakerBoilermaker
$62.06 $41.29 $103.35 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
BricklayerBrick Mason · 2 rates
$54.81 $41.84 $96.65 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
CarpenterCarpenter
$58.51 $46.82 $105.33 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Cement MasonCement Mason
$57.10 $43.75 $100.85 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Concrete SpecialistConcrete Specialist · 2 rates
$53.56 $43.14 $96.70 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Construction Inspector & Materials TesterMaterial Tester I · 2 rates
$43.00 $39.11 $82.11 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
$58.51 $46.82 $105.33 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Electrical Utility LinemanElectric Pwr Lineman · 4 rates
$65.92 $30.25 $96.17 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
ElectricianElectrician
$52.49 $55.25 $107.74 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Elevator ConstructorElevator Constructor
$73.65 $44.87 $118.52 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Fence BuilderFence Erector
$53.73 $35.56 $89.29 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Field SurveyorSurvey Worker · 2 rates
$60.00 $37.04 $97.04 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
GlazierGlazier
$55.35 $46.25 $101.60 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Insulator (Heat & Frost / Asbestos Worker)Heat/Frost Insulator · 2 rates
$58.02 $38.90 $96.92 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
IronworkerIron Worker · 3 rates
$64.19 $48.84 $113.03 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
LaborerLaborer
$53.00 $39.11 $92.11 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
MachinistMachinist
$61.89 $27.70 $89.59 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Marble FinisherMarble Finisher
$41.74 $38.56 $80.30 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Marble MasonMarble Setter
$53.75 $40.79 $94.54 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
MillwrightMillwright
$58.51 $46.82 $105.33 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Operating EngineerOperating Engineer, Class 1 · 15 rates
$68.80 $53.05 $121.85 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
PainterPainter · 2 rates
$56.30 $30.38 $86.68 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Pile DriverPiledriver
$58.51 $46.82 $105.33 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
PlastererPlasterer
$54.98 $41.85 $96.83 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Plumber / PipefitterPlumber · 3 rates
$62.00 $41.02 $103.02 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
RooferRoofer
$53.75 $32.28 $86.03 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Sheet Metal WorkerSheetmetal Worker
$60.89 $43.35 $104.24 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Striping & Traffic Control WorkerTraffic Safety Worker I · 2 rates
$44.65 $22.38 $67.03 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Teamster (Truck Driver)Truck Driver, Class 1 · 4 rates
$46.71 $29.50 $76.21 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Telecommunications TechnicianCommunication Technician
$40.90 $44.32 $85.22 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Terrazzo FinisherTerrazzo Finisher
$53.44 $34.73 $88.17 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Terrazzo WorkerTerrazzo Mechanic
$57.35 $36.47 $93.82 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Tile FinisherCeramic Tile Finisher
$51.09 $33.73 $84.82 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
Tile SetterCeramic Tile Layer
$59.44 $37.97 $97.41 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage
TuckpointerTuckpointer
$53.53 $37.26 $90.79 Oct 19, 2026IDOL-20261019-dupage

One main rate per trade; open a trade for its other classes, work types, regions and overtime. IDOL prints no total, so each total is base wage plus fringe benefits, added by us. 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's DuPage County schedule, posted October 19, 2026; checked against labor.illinois.gov on October 24, 2026.

Which trades pay the most in DuPage County?

Operating engineer, at $121.85 an hour. Each trade's main rate, highest first, split into the base wage and the fringe benefits IDOL lists, on one scale.

  1. Operating Engineer$121.85
  2. Elevator Constructor$118.52
  3. Ironworker$113.03
  4. Electrician$107.74
  5. Carpenter$105.33
  6. Drywall Installer / Lather$105.33
  7. Millwright$105.33
  8. Pile Driver$105.33
  9. Sheet Metal Worker$104.24
  10. Boilermaker$103.35
  11. Plumber / Pipefitter$103.02
  12. Glazier$101.60
  13. Cement Mason$100.85
  14. Tile Setter$97.41
  15. Field Surveyor$97.04
  16. Heat & Frost Insulator$96.92
  17. Plasterer$96.83
  18. Concrete Specialist$96.70
  19. Bricklayer$96.65
  20. Utility Lineman$96.17
  21. Marble Mason$94.54
  22. Terrazzo Worker$93.82
  23. Abatement Laborer$92.11
  24. Laborer$92.11
  25. Tuckpointer$90.79
  26. Machinist$89.59
  27. Fence Builder$89.29
  28. Terrazzo Finisher$88.17
  29. Painter$86.68
  30. Roofer$86.03
  31. Telecom Technician$85.22
  32. Tile Finisher$84.82
  33. Inspector & Tester$82.11
  34. Marble Finisher$80.30
  35. Teamster (Truck Driver)$76.21
  36. Striping & Traffic Control$67.03

What do IDOL's notes for DuPage County say?

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

IRON WORKERS AND FENCE ERECTOR (WEST) - West of Route 53. 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.

Explanation of classes (13 sections)

TRAFFIC SAFETY WORKER II Work associated with the installation and removal of permanent pavement markings and/or pavement markers including both installations performed by hand and installations performed by truck.

CERAMIC TILE FINISHER The grouting, cleaning, and polishing of all classes of tile, whether for interior or exterior purposes, all burned, glazed or unglazed products; all composition materials, granite tiles, warning detectable tiles, cement tiles, epoxy composite materials, pavers, glass, mosaics, fiberglass, and all substitute materials, for tile made in tile-like units; all mixtures in tile like form of cement, metals, and other materials that are for and intended for use as a finished floor surface, stair treads, promenade roofs, walks, walls, ceilings, swimming pools, and all other places where tile is to form a finished interior or exterior. The mixing of all setting mortars including but not limited to thin-set mortars, epoxies, wall mud, and any other sand and cement mixtures or adhesives when used in the preparation, installation, repair, or maintenance of tile and/or similar materials. The handling and unloading of all sand, cement, lime, tile, fixtures, equipment, adhesives, or any other materials to be used in the preparation, installation, repair, or maintenance of tile and/or similar materials. Ceramic Tile Finishers shall fill all joints and voids regardless of method on all tile work, particularly and especially after installation of said tile work. Application of any and all protective coverings to all types of tile installations including, but not be limited to, all soap compounds, paper products, tapes, and all polyethylene coverings, plywood, masonite, cardboard, and any new type of products that may be used to protect tile installations, Blastrac equipment, and all floor scarifying equipment used in preparing floors to receive tile. The clean up and removal of all waste and materials. All demolition of existing tile floors and walls to be re-tiled.

COMMUNICATIONS TECHNICIAN Low voltage installation, maintenance and removal of telecommunication facilities (voice, sound, data and video) including telephone and data inside wire, interconnect, terminal equipment, central offices, PABX, fiber optic cable and equipment, micro waves, V-SAT, bypass, CATV, WAN (wide area networks), LAN (local area networks), and ISDN (integrated system digital network), pulling of wire in raceways, but not the installation of raceways.

MARBLE FINISHER Loading and unloading trucks, distribution of all materials (all stone, sand, etc.), stocking of floors with material, performing all rigging for heavy work, the handling of all material that may be needed for the installation of such materials, building of scaffolding, polishing if needed, patching, waxing of material if damaged, pointing up, caulking, grouting and cleaning of marble, holding water on diamond or Carborundum blade or saw for setters cutting, use of tub saw or any other saw needed for preparation of material, drilling of holes for wires that anchor material set by setters, mixing up of molding plaster for installation of material, mixing up thin set for the installation of material, mixing up of sand to cement for the installation of material and such other work as may be required in helping a Marble Setter in the handling of all material in the erection or installation of interior marble, slate, travertine, art marble, serpentine, alberene stone, blue stone, granite and other stones (meaning as to stone any foreign or domestic materials as are specified and used in building interiors and exteriors and customarily known as stone in the trade), carrara, sanionyx, vitrolite and similar opaque glass and the laying of all marble tile, terrazzo tile, slate tile and precast tile, steps, risers treads, base, or any other materials that may be used as substitutes for any of the aforementioned materials and which are used on interior and exterior which are installed in a similar manner. MATERIAL TESTER I: Hand coring and drilling for testing of materials; field inspection of uncured concrete and asphalt. MATERIAL TESTER II: Field inspection of welds, structural steel, fireproofing, masonry, soil, facade, reinforcing steel, formwork, cured concrete, and concrete and asphalt batch plants; adjusting proportions of bituminous mixtures.

OPERATING ENGINEER - BUILDING Class 1. Asphalt Plant; Asphalt Spreader; Autograde; Backhoes with Caisson Attachment; Batch Plant; Benoto (requires Two Engineers); Boiler and Throttle Valve; Caisson Rigs; Central Redi-Mix Plant; Combination Back Hoe Front End-loader Machine; Compressor and Throttle Valve; Concrete Breaker (Truck Mounted); Concrete Conveyor; Concrete Conveyor (Truck Mounted); Concrete Paver Over 27E cu. ft; Concrete Paver 27E cu. ft. and Under: Concrete Placer; Concrete Placing Boom; Concrete Pump (Truck Mounted); Concrete Tower; Cranes, All; Cranes, Hammerhead; Cranes, (GCI and similar Type); Creter Crane; Spider Crane; Crusher, Stone, etc.; Derricks, All; Derricks, Traveling; Formless Curb and Gutter Machine; Grader, Elevating; Grouting Machines; Heavy Duty Self-Propelled Transporter or Prime Mover; Highlift Shovels or Front Endloader 2-1/4 yd. and over; Hoists, Elevators, outside type rack and pinion and similar machines; Hoists, One, Two and Three Drum; Hoists, Two Tugger One Floor; Hydraulic Backhoes; Hydraulic Boom Trucks; Hydro Vac (and similar equipment); Locomotives, All; Motor Patrol; Lubrication Technician; Manipulators; Pile Drivers and Skid Rig; Post Hole Digger; Pre-Stress Machine; Pump Cretes Dual Ram; Pump Cretes: Squeeze Cretes-Screw Type Pumps; Gypsum Bulker and Pump; Raised and Blind Hole Drill; Roto Mill Grinder; Scoops - Tractor Drawn; Slip- Form Paver; Straddle Buggies; Operation of Tie Back Machine; Tournapull; Tractor with Boom and Side Boom; Trenching Machines. Class 2. Boilers; Broom, All Power Propelled; Bulldozers; Concrete Mixer (Two Bag and Over); Conveyor, Portable; Forklift Trucks; Highlift Shovels or Front Endloaders under 2-1/4 yd.; Hoists, Automatic; Hoists, Inside Elevators; Hoists, Sewer Dragging Machine; Hoists, Tugger Single Drum; Laser Screed; Rock Drill (Self-Propelled); Rock Drill (Truck Mounted); Rollers, All; Steam Generators; Tractors, All; Tractor Drawn Vibratory Roller; Winch Trucks with "A" Frame. Class 3. Air Compressor; Combination Small Equipment Operator; Generators; Heaters, Mechanical; Hoists, Inside Elevators (remodeling or renovation work); Hydraulic Power Units (Pile Driving, Extracting, and Drilling); Pumps, over 3" (1 to 3 not to exceed a total of 300 ft.); Low Boys; Pumps, Well Points; Welding Machines (2 through 5); Winches, 4 Small Electric Drill Winches. Class 4. Bobcats and/or other Skid Steer Loaders; Oilers; and Brick Forklift. Class 5. Assistant Craft Foreman. Class 6. Gradall. Class 7. Mechanics; Welders.

OPERATING ENGINEERS - HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION Class 1. Asphalt Plant; Asphalt Heater and Planer Combination; Asphalt Heater Scarfire; Asphalt Spreader; Autograder/GOMACO or other similar type machines: ABG Paver; Backhoes with Caisson Attachment; Ballast Regulator; Belt Loader; Caisson Rigs; Car Dumper; Central Redi-Mix Plant; Combination Backhoe Front Endloader Machine, (1 cu. yd. Backhoe Bucket or over or with attachments); Concrete Breaker (Truck Mounted); Concrete Conveyor; Concrete Paver over 27E cu. ft.; Concrete Placer; Concrete Tube Float; Cranes, all attachments; Cranes, Tower Cranes of all types: Creter Crane: Spider Crane; Crusher, Stone, etc.; Derricks, All; Derrick Boats; Derricks, Traveling; Dredges; Elevators, Outside type Rack & Pinion and Similar Machines; Formless Curb and Gutter Machine; Grader, Elevating; Grader, Motor Grader, Motor Patrol, Auto Patrol, Form Grader, Pull Grader, Subgrader; Guard Rail Post Driver Truck Mounted; Hoists, One, Two and Three Drum; Heavy Duty Self-Propelled Transporter or Prime Mover; Hydraulic Backhoes; Backhoes with shear attachments up to 40' of boom reach; Lubrication Technician; Manipulators; Mucking Machine; Pile Drivers and Skid Rig; Pre-Stress Machine; Pump Cretes Dual Ram; Rock Drill - Crawler or Skid Rig; Rock Drill - Truck Mounted; Rock/Track Tamper; Roto Mill Grinder; Slip-Form Paver; Snow Melters; Soil Test Drill Rig (Truck Mounted); Straddle Buggies; Hydraulic Telescoping Form (Tunnel); Operation of Tieback Machine; Tractor Drawn Belt Loader; Tractor Drawn Belt Loader (with attached pusher - two engineers); Tractor with Boom; Tractaire with Attachments; Traffic Barrier Transfer Machine; Trenching; Truck Mounted Concrete Pump with Boom; Raised or Blind Hole Drills (Tunnel Shaft); Underground Boring and/or Mining Machines 5 ft. in diameter and over tunnel, etc; Underground Boring and/or Mining Machines under 5 ft. in diameter; Wheel Excavator; Widener (APSCO). Class 2. Batch Plant; Bituminous Mixer; Boiler and Throttle Valve; Bulldozers; Car Loader Trailing Conveyors; Combination Backhoe Front Endloader Machine (Less than 1 cu. yd. Backhoe Bucket or over or with attachments); Compressor and Throttle Valve; Compressor, Common Receiver (3); Concrete Breaker or Hydro Hammer; Concrete Grinding Machine; Concrete Mixer or Paver 7S Series to and including 27 cu. ft.; Concrete Spreader; Concrete Curing Machine, Burlap Machine, Belting Machine and Sealing Machine; Concrete Wheel Saw; Conveyor Muck Cars (Haglund or Similar Type); Drills, All; Finishing Machine - Concrete; Highlift Shovels or Front Endloader; Hoist - Sewer Dragging Machine; Hydraulic Boom Trucks (All Attachments); Hydro-Blaster; Hydro Excavating (excluding hose work); Laser Screed; All Locomotives, Dinky; Off-Road Hauling Units (including articulating) Non Self- Loading Ejection Dump; Pump Cretes: Squeeze Cretes - Screw Type Pumps, Gypsum Bulker and Pump; Roller, Asphalt; Rotary Snow Plows; Rototiller, Seaman, etc., self-propelled; Self-Propelled Compactor; Spreader - Chip - Stone, etc.; Scraper - Single/Twin Engine/Push and Pull; Scraper - Prime Mover in Tandem (Regardless of Size); Tractors pulling attachments, Sheeps Foot, Disc, Compactor, etc.; Tug Boats. Class 3. Boilers; Brooms, All Power Propelled; Cement Supply Tender; Compressor, Common Receiver (2); Concrete Mixer (Two Bag and Over); Conveyor, Portable; Farm-Type Tractors Used for Mowing, Seeding, etc.; Forklift Trucks; Grouting Machine; Hoists, Automatic; Hoists, All Elevators; Hoists, Tugger Single Drum; Jeep Diggers; Low Boys; Pipe Jacking Machines; Post-Hole Digger; Power Saw, Concrete Power Driven; Pug Mills; Rollers, other than Asphalt; Seed and Straw Blower; Steam Generators; Stump Machine; Winch Trucks with "A" Frame; Work Boats; Tamper-Form-Motor Driven. Class 4. Air Compressor; Combination - Small Equipment Operator; Directional Boring Machine; Generators; Heaters, Mechanical; Hydraulic Power Unit (Pile Driving, Extracting, or Drilling); Light Plants, All (1 through 5); Pumps, over 3" (1 to 3 not to exceed a total of 300 ft.); Pumps, Well Points; Vacuum Trucks (excluding hose work); Welding Machines (2 through 5); Winches, 4 Small Electric Drill Winches. Class 5. SkidSteer Loader (all); Brick Forklifts; Oilers. Class 6. Field Mechanics and Field Welders Class 7. Dowell Machine with Air Compressor; Gradall and machines of like nature.

OPERATING ENGINEER - FLOATING Diver. Diver Wet Tender, Diver Tender, ROV Pilot, ROV Tender

TRUCK DRIVER - BUILDING, HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION Class 1. Two or three Axle Trucks. A-frame Truck when used for transportation purposes; Air Compressors and Welding Machines, including those pulled by cars, pick-up trucks and tractors; Ambulances; Batch Gate Lockers; Batch Hopperman; Car and Truck Washers; Carry-alls; Fork Lifts and Hoisters; Helpers; Mechanics Helpers and Greasers; Oil Distributors 2-man operation; Pavement Breakers; Pole Trailer, up to 40 feet; Power Mower Tractors; Self-propelled Chip Spreader; Skipman; Slurry Trucks, 2-man operation; Slurry Truck Conveyor Operation, 2 or 3 man; Teamsters; Unskilled Dumpman; and Truck Drivers hauling warning lights, barricades, and portable toilets on the job site. Class 2. Four axle trucks; Dump Crets and Adgetors under 7 yards; Dumpsters, Track Trucks, Euclids, Hug Bottom Dump Turnapulls or Turnatrailers when pulling other than self-loading equipment or similar equipment under 16 cubic yards; Mixer Trucks under 7 yeards; Ready-mix Plant Hopper Operator, and Winch Trucks, 2 Axles. Class 3. Five axle trucks; Dump Crets and Adgetors 7 yards and over; Dumpsters, Track Trucks, Euclids, Hug Bottom Dump Turnatrailers or turnapulls when pulling other than self-loading equipment or similar equipment over 16 cubic yards; Explosives and/or Fission Material Trucks; Mixer Trucks 7 yards or over; Mobile Cranes while in transit; Oil Distributors, 1-man operation; Pole Trailer, over 40 feet; Pole and Expandable Trailers hauling material over 50 feet long; Slurry trucks, 1-man operation; Winch trucks, 3 axles or more; Mechanic--Truck Welder and Truck Painter. Class 4. Six axle trucks; Dual-purpose vehicles, such as mounted crane trucks with hoist and accessories; Foreman; Master Mechanic; Self-loading equipment like P.B. and trucks with scoops on the front.

SURVEY WORKER Operates survey equipment (such as levels, transits, data collectors, GPS and robotic total stations) for the purpose of performing construction layout and/or grade checking.

SURVEY FOREMAN Operates survey equipment (such as levels, transits, data collectors, GPS and robotic total stations) for the purpose of performing construction layout and/or grade checking; oversees survey crew operations; and/or coordinates work of survey crews.

TERRAZZO FINISHER The handling of sand, cement, marble chips, and all other materials that may be used by the Mosaic Terrazzo Mechanic, and the mixing, grinding, grouting, cleaning and sealing of all Marble, Mosaic, and Terrazzo work, floors, base, stairs, and wainscoting by hand or machine, and in addition, assisting and aiding Marble, Masonic, and Terrazzo Mechanics. 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.

MATERIAL TESTER & MATERIAL TESTER/INSPECTOR I AND II Notwithstanding the difference in the classification title, the classification entitled "Material Tester I" involves the same job duties as the classification entitled "Material Tester/Inspector I". Likewise, the classification entitled "Material Tester II" involves the same job duties as the classification entitled "Material Tester/Inspector II".

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

Which Davis-Bacon wage determinations cover DuPage 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
BuildingIL20260008
Excludes Landscape Projects
3October 22, 2026
ResidentialIL20260008
Excludes Landscape Projects
3October 22, 2026
HighwayIL20260011
Excludes Landscape Projects
2May 21, 2026
HeavyIL20260011
Excludes Landscape Projects
2May 21, 2026

Specialty WDs also cover DuPage 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); IL20260020 (Landscaping work on Building, Residential, Heavy and Highway Construction Projects).

What changed in these determinations this year

Questions about DuPage County rates

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

$107.74 an hour: a $52.49 base wage plus $55.25 in fringe benefits, for the main classification, under IDOL's county schedule. Overtime and every electrician rate in DuPage County.

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

$92.11 an hour: a $53.00 base wage plus $39.11 in fringe benefits, for the main classification, under IDOL's county schedule. Overtime and every laborer rate in DuPage 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 operating engineer, the highest-paid trade in DuPage County, the $121.85 total is a $68.80 base wage plus $53.05 in fringe benefits.

Do Davis-Bacon rates apply in DuPage County?

On federally funded or assisted construction, yes: IL20260008 (modification 3, October 22, 2026) for building and residential construction and IL20260011 (modification 2, May 21, 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 DuPage County share its rates with other counties?

For 31 of its 36 trades, yes: IDOL sets the same rates, row for row, in other counties too. Carpenter rates, for example, are the same in 3 counties (the Cook County group). The other 5 are DuPage County's own.