Laborer prevailing wage in Mercer County, Illinois

Class 1: General laborer, carpenter tender, tool cribman, salamander tender, flagman, form handler, floor sweeper, material handler, fencing laborer, cleaning lumber, landscaper, unloading explosives, laying of sod, planting/removal of trees, wrecking laborer, unloading of Re-Bars, scaffold worker, signal man on crane. Class 2: Handling of materials treated with creosote, kettle men, prime mover or motorized unit used for wet concrete or handling of building materials, vibrator operator, motar mixer, power tools used under the jurisdiction of laborers, sand points, gunnite nozzle men, welders, cutters, burners and torchmen, chain saw operator, jackhammer and drill operators, paving breakers, air tamping hammerman, concrete saw operator, concrete burning machine operator, coring machine operator - hod carrier and plasterer tender. Class 3: Caisson worker after 6 foot depth, dynamite man, asbestos abatement worker, tunnel miners - mixerman (plaster only), pump man.

Class 1: Rod or chain man, flagman, dumpman, spotter, broom man, landscaper, planting and removal of trees, fencing laborers, dispatcher, ticket writer, scaleman, cleaning of forms or lumber (in bone yard), laying of sod, moving and/or maintenance of flares and barricades. Class 2: Operation of all hand, electric, air, hydraulic or mechanically powered tools under the jurisdiction of Laborers' including jackhammers, tempers, air spades, augers, concrete saws, chain saws, utility saws, rock drills, vibrators, mortar mixer, power and hand saw (when clearing timber) general laborer (not elsewhere covered), craft-tender, material checker, material handler, form handler, concrete dumper, puddler, form setter helper, explosives handler, dynamite helper, center strip, reinforcing in concrete, wire mesh handler and installer, prime mover or any mechanical device taking the place of concrete buggy or wheelbarrow, sandpoint setter, asphalt kettleman. Sheeting hammer drivers, laying and jointing of telephone conduit, gas distribution men, pipe setter on laterals, drain tiles, culvert pipe, and storm sewer catch basin leads, catch basins, manholes, batch dumpers, tank cleaners, cofferdam workers, bankman on floating plant, jointman with pipelayers. Back-up man (corker, joint maker) with pipe setter on sewer and water mains, batterboard man or laser operator on sewer and water main, labor in ditch, or tunnel, on sewer or water mains and telephone conduit. Cutters, burners, torchman, gravel box man, asphalt plant laborers, concrete plant laborer, deck hand, unloading of steel and rebar, laser beam operator, wrecking laborers. Class 3: Asphalt raker or luteman, head form setter, head dynamite man (powderman) head string or wireline man (on paving), pipe setter on sewer or water main, gunnite nozzle man, asphalt or concrete curb machine operator, head grade man, head tunnel miner, concrete burning machine operator, coring machine operator, welder. MATERIAL TESTER/INSPECTOR I: Hand coring and drilling for testing of materials; field inspection of uncured concrete and asphalt. MATERIAL TESTER/INSPECTOR 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.

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.