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Prevailing wage rates in Kankakee County, Illinois

IDOL's schedule for work performed on or after October 19, 2026 sets 61 rates across 32 trades for public works in Kankakee County. Of each trade's main rate, operating engineer is the highest at $121.85 an hour in base wage plus fringes, and painter the lowest at $73.90.

IDOL's Kankakee 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.

Kankakee 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. Operating Engineer$121.85
  2. Electrician$109.85
  3. Utility Lineman$107.20
  4. Elevator Constructor$104.34
  5. Sheet Metal Worker$104.24
  6. Boilermaker$103.35
  7. Glazier$101.60
  8. Heat & Frost Insulator$96.92
  9. Carpenter$96.52
  10. Drywall Installer / Lather$96.52
  11. Millwright$96.52
  12. Pile Driver$96.52
  13. Plumber / Pipefitter$96.52
  14. Ironworker$95.54
  15. Machinist$89.59
  16. Telecom Technician$89.31
  17. Bricklayer$87.77
  18. Cement Mason$87.77
  19. Marble Mason$87.77
  20. Plasterer$87.77
  21. Terrazzo Worker$87.77
  22. Tile Setter$87.77
  23. Tuckpointer$87.77
  24. Roofer$86.03
  25. Abatement Laborer$85.29
  26. Inspector & Tester$84.79
  27. Laborer$83.79
  28. Marble Finisher$82.85
  29. Terrazzo Finisher$82.85
  30. Tile Finisher$82.85
  31. Teamster (Truck Driver)$78.71
  32. Painter$73.90

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 · Kankakee County groupAsbestos ABT-GEN (building)$85.29 $48.70 2
Boilermaker · Cook County groupBoilermaker (building)$103.35 $62.06 1
Bricklayer · Kankakee County groupBrick Mason (building)$87.77 $52.99 1
Carpenter · Kankakee County groupCarpenter (building)$96.52 $48.76 2
Cement Mason · Kankakee County groupCement Mason (building)$87.77 $52.99 2
Construction Inspector & Materials TesterMaterial Tester I$84.79 $48.70 2
Drywall Installer / Lather · Kankakee County groupLather (building)$96.52 $48.76 1
Electrical Utility Lineman · Cook County groupElectric Pwr Lineman$107.20 $67.18 3
ElectricianElectrician (building)$109.85 $60.60 1
Elevator Constructor · Champaign County groupElevator Constructor (building)$104.34 $60.52 1
Glazier · Cook County groupGlazier (building)$101.60 $55.35 1
Insulator (Heat & Frost / Asbestos Worker) · Cook County groupHeat/Frost Insulator (building)$96.92 $58.02 2
IronworkerIron Worker$95.54 $51.55 1
LaborerLaborer (building)$83.79 $47.70 4
Machinist · Cook County groupMachinist (building)$89.59 $61.89 1
Marble Finisher · Kankakee County groupMarble Finisher (building)$82.85 $48.11 1
Marble Mason · Kankakee County groupMarble Mason (building)$87.77 $52.99 1
Millwright · Kankakee County groupMillwright (building)$96.52 $48.76 1
Operating EngineerOperating Engineer, Class 1 (building)$121.85 $68.80 14
Painter · LaSalle County groupPainter$73.90 $44.00 2
Pile Driver · Kankakee County groupPiledriver (building)$96.52 $48.76 1
Plasterer · Kankakee County groupPlasterer (building)$87.77 $52.99 1
Plumber / Pipefitter · Kankakee County groupPlumber (building)$96.52 $56.75 3
Roofer · Cook County groupRoofer (building)$86.03 $53.75 1
Sheet Metal Worker · DuPage County groupSheetmetal Worker (building)$104.24 $60.89 1
Teamster (Truck Driver)Truck Driver, Class 1$78.71 $50.69 4
Telecommunications TechnicianCommunication Technician (building)$89.31 $48.00 1
Terrazzo Finisher · Kankakee County groupTerrazzo Finisher (building)$82.85 $48.11 1
Terrazzo Worker · Kankakee County groupTerrazzo Mason (building)$87.77 $52.99 1
Tile Finisher · Kankakee County groupCeramic Tile Finisher (building)$82.85 $48.11 1
Tile Setter · Kankakee County groupTile Mason (building)$87.77 $52.99 1
Tuckpointer · Kankakee County groupTuckpointer (building)$87.77 $52.99 1

IDOL's notes for Kankakee 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.

Explanation of classes (7 sections)

CERAMIC TILE FINISHER, MARBLE FINISHER, AND TERRAZZO FINISHER The laying, setting and finishing of all tile where used for floors, walls, ceilings, walks, promenade roofs, stair treads, stair risers, facings, hearths, fireplaces, and decorative inserts, together with any marble plinths, thresholds or window stools used in connection with any tile work; also to prepare and set all concrete, cement, brickwork, or other foundation or materials that may be required to properly set and complete such work; the setting or bedding of all tiling, stone, marble, composition, glass, mosaic, or other materials forming the facing, hearth or fireplace of a mantle, or the mantle complete, together with the setting of all cement, brickwork, or other material required in connection with the above work; also the slabbing and fabrication of tile mantels, counters and tile panels of every description and the erection and installation of same and the building, shaping, forming, construction, or repairing of all fireplace work, whether in connection with the mantle hearth facing or not, and the setting and preparing of all material, such as cement, plaster, mortar, brickwork, iron work or other materials necessary for the proper and safe construction and completion of such work. 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.

COMMUNICATIONS TECHNICIAN Installing, manufacturing, assembling and maintaining sound and intercom, protection alarm (security), fire alarm, master antenna television, closed circuit television, low voltage control for computers and/or door monitoring, school communications systems, telephones and servicing of nurse and emergency calls, and the installation and maintenance of transmit and receive antennas, transmitters, receivers, and associated apparatus which operates in conjunction with above systems. All work associated with these system installations will be included EXCEPT the installation of protective metallic conduit in new construction projects (excluding less than ten-foot, runs strictly for protection of cable) and 120 volt AC (or higher) power wiring and associated hardware.

LABORER, SKILLED - BUILDING The skilled laborer building (BLD) classification shall encompass the following types of work, irrespective of the site of the work: caisson workers plus depth, gunnite nozzle men, lead man on sewer work, welders, cutters, burners and torchmen, chain saw operators, paving breaker, jackhammer and drill operators, layout man and/or drainage tile layer, steel form setters - street and highway, air tamping hammerman, signal man on crane, concrete saw operator, screenman on asphalt pavers, front end man on chip spreader, laborers tending masons with hot materials or where foreign materials are used, multiple concrete duct-leadman, luteman, asphalt raker, curb asphalt machine operator, ready mix scalemen (permanent, portable or temporary plant), laborers handling masterplate or similar materials, laser beam operator, concrete burning machine operator, coring machine operator, plaster tenders, underpinning and shoring of buildings, material selector when working with fire-brick or castable material, fire watch, signaling of all power equipment, and tree topper or trimmer when in connection with construction.

LABORER, SKILLED - HIGHWAY The skilled laborer heavy and highway (HWY) classification shall encompass the following types of work, irrespective of the site of the work: handling of materials treated with oil, creosote, asphalt and/or any foreign materials harmful to skin or clothing, track laborers, chloride handlers, the unloading and loading with steel workers and re-bars, concrete workers (wet), tunnel helpers in free air, batch dumpers, mason tenders, kettle and tar men, plastic installers, scaffold workers, motorized buggies or motorized unit used for wet concrete or handling of building materials, laborers with de-watering systems, sewer workers plus depth, rod and chainmen, vibrator operators, mortar mixer operators, cement silica, clay, fly ash, lime and plasters, handlers (bulk or bag), cofferdam workers plus depth, on concrete paving, placing, cutting and tying or reinforcing, deck hand, dredge hand shore laborers, bankmen on floating plant, asphalt workers with machine, and layers, grade checker, power tools, stripping of all concrete forms excluding paving forms, dumpmen and spotters, when necessary, caisson workers plus depth, gunnite nozzle men, welders, cutters, burners and torchmen, chain saw operators, paving breaker, jackhammer and drill operators, layout man and/or drainage tile layer, steel form setters - street and highway, air tamping hammerman, signal man on crane, concrete saw operator, screedman on asphalt pavers, front end man on chip spreader, multiple concrete duct, luteman, asphalt raker, curb asphalt machine operator, ready mix scalemen (portable or temporary plant), laser beam operator, concrete burning machine operator, and coring machine operator. 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. 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. 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 Kankakee 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
BuildingIL202600061May 18, 2026
ResidentialIL202600061May 18, 2026
HighwayIL20260013
Excludes Landscape Projects for Grundy County
1May 18, 2026
HeavyIL20260013
Excludes Landscape Projects for Grundy County
1May 18, 2026

Specialty WDs also cover Kankakee 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 Kankakee County rates

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

$109.85 an hour: a $60.60 base wage plus $49.25 in fringe benefits, for the main classification, under IDOL's county schedule. Overtime and every electrician rate in Kankakee County.

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

$83.79 an hour: a $47.70 base wage plus $36.09 in fringe benefits, for the main classification, under IDOL's county schedule. Overtime and every laborer rate in Kankakee 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 Kankakee County, the $121.85 total is a $68.80 base wage plus $53.05 in fringe benefits.

Do Davis-Bacon rates apply in Kankakee County?

On federally funded or assisted construction, yes: IL20260006 (modification 1, May 18, 2026) for building and residential construction and IL20260013 (modification 1, May 18, 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 Kankakee County share its rates with other counties?

For 25 of its 32 trades, yes: IDOL sets the same rates, row for row, in other counties too. Carpenter rates, for example, are the same in 2 counties (the Kankakee County group). The other 7 are Kankakee County's own.