Prevailing wage rates in Whiteside County, Illinois

ELECTRICIAN AND COMMUNICATION TECHNICIAN(EAST) - Townships of Genessee, Jordan, Hopkins, Sterling, Hume, Montmorency, Tampico, and Hahnaman.

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN (WEST) - Portion west of Genesee, Hume, Mount Pleasant, and Tampico Townships.

IRONWORKERS (WEST) - South along Yorktown Road to Highway 30. Go East along Highway 30 to Matznik Road. Go South until the Whiteside / Bureau County Line (Osage Road). Go West along the Whiteside / Bureau County Line to the Henry County Line.

IRON WORKERS (SOUTHEAST) - Route 30 at Yorktown Road East to the Lee County Line including all of the City of Rock Falls.

FENCE ERECTORS - Same as Iron Workers above.

OPERATING ENGINEERS (WEST) - From the fifth sectional line east of Morrison, running directly north and south.

ROOFERS (EAST) - The cities of Sterling and Rock Falls only. 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.

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. COMMUNICATIONS TECHNICIAN - East 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. ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN - West Installing, assembling and maintaining sound and intercom, protection alarm (security), master antenna television, closed circuit television, computer hardware and software programming and installation to the network's outlet and input (EXCLUDING all cabling, power and cable termination work historically performed by wiremen), door monitoring and control, nurse and emergency call programming and installation to the system's outlet and input (EXCLUDING all cabling, power and cable termination work historically performed by wiremen), clock and timing; and the installation and maintenance of transmit and receive antennas, transmitters, receivers, and associated apparatus which operates in conjunction with the above systems. All work associated with these system installations will be included EXCEPT (1) installation of protective metallic conduit, excluding less than ten-foot runs strictly for protection of cable, and (2) 120 volt AC (or higher) power wiring and associated hardware.

LABORER, SKILLED - HIGHWAY Individuals engaged in the following types of work, irrespective of the site of the work: asbestos abatement worker, handling of any materials with any foreign matter harmful to skin or clothing, track laborer, cement handlers, 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, tank cleaners, 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 with technical engineers, rod and chainmen with land surveyors, rod and chainmen with surveyors, vibrator operators, cement silica, clay, fly ash, lime and plasters, handlers (bulk or bag), cofferdam workers plus depth, on concrete paving, placing, cutting and tying of reinforcing, deck hand, dredge hand, and shore laborers, bankmen on floating plant, grade checker, power tools, front end man on chip spreaders, cassion workers plus depth, gunnite nozzle men, lead man on sewer work, welders, cutters, burners and torchmen, chainsaw operators, jackhammer and drill operators, layout man and/or drainage tile layer, steel form setter - street and highway, air tamping hammermen, signal man on crane, concrete saw operator, screedman on asphalt pavers, laborers tending masons with hot material or where foreign materials are used, mortar mixer operators, multiple concrete duct - leadsman, lumen, 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 tender, underpinning and shoring of buildings, pump men, manhole and catch basin, dirt and stone tamper, hose men on concrete pumps, hazardous waste worker, lead base paint abatement worker, lining of pipe, refusing machine, assisting on direct boring machine, the work of laying watermain, fire hydrants, all mechanical joints to watermain work, sewer worker, and tapping water service and forced lift station mechanical worker. 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. OPERATING ENGINEERS - BUILDING (East) 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 Paver (over 27E cu. ft.): Concrete Paver (27 cu. ft. and under); Concrete Placer; Concrete Pump (Truck Mounted); Concrete Conveyor (Truck Mounted); Concrete Tower; Cranes, All; GCI and similar types (required two operators only); Cranes, Hammerhead; Creter Crane; Crusher, Stone, etc.; Derricks, All; Derricks, Traveling; Formless Curb and Gutter Machine; Grader, Elevating; Grouting Machines; 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 - excluding hose work and any sewer work); Locomotives, All; Lubrication Technician; Manipulators; Motor Patrol; 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; Rock Drill (self-propelled); Rock Drill - Truck Mounted; Roto Mill Grinder; Scoops - Tractor Drawn; Slipform Paver; Scrapers Prime Movers; Straddle Buggies; Tie Back Machine; Tractor with Boom and Side Boom; Trenching Machines. Class 2. Bobcat (over 3/4 cu. yd.); Boilers; Brick Forklift; 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, Sewer Dragging Machine; Hoists, Tugger Single Drum; Laser Screed; Rollers, All; Steam Generators; Tractors, All; Tractor Drawn Vibratory Roller; Winch Trucks with "A" Frame. Class 3. Air Compressor; Asphalt Spreader; Combination - Small Equipment Operator; Generators; Heaters, Mechanical; Hoists, Inside Elevators - (Rheostat Manual Controlled); Hydraulic Power Units (Pile Driving, Extracting, or Drilling - with a seat); Lowboys; Pumps, Over 3" (1 to 3 not to exceed total of 300 ft.); Pumps, Well Points; Welding Machines (2 through 5); Winches, 4 Small Electric Drill Winches; Bobcat (up to and including 3/4 cu. yd.). Class 4. Elevator push button with automatic doors; Hoists, Inside; Oilers; Brick Forklift. Class 5. Assistant Craft Foreman Class 6. Mechanics; Welders. Class 7. Gradall OPERATING ENGINEERS - HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION (East) Class 1. Asphalt Plant; Asphalt Heater and Planer Combination; Asphalt Heater Scarfire; Asphalt Silo Tender; Asphalt Spreader; Autograder; ABG Paver; Backhoes with Caisson Attachment; Ballast Regulator; Belt Loader; Caisson Rigs; Car Dumper; Central Redi-Mix Plant; Backhoe w/shear attachments; 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 of all types; Creter Crane; Crusher, Stone, etc.; Derricks, All; Derrick Boats; Derricks, Traveling; Directional Boring Machine over 12"; Dredges; Formless Curb and Gutter Machine; Grader, Elevating; Grader, Motor Grader, Motor Patrol, Auto Patrol, Form Grader, Pull Grader, Subgrader; Guard Rail Post Driver Mounted; Hoists, One, Two and Three Drum; Hydraulic Backhoes; Hydro Vac, Self Propelled, Truck Mounted (excluding hose work and any sewer work); Lubrication Technician; Manipulators; 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; GCI Crane; Hydraulic Telescoping Form (Tunnel); Tie Back Machine; Tractor Drawn Belt Loader; Tractor Drawn Belt Loader with attached pusher; Tractor with Boom; Tractaire with Attachments; Traffic Barrier Conveyor Machine; Raised or Blind Hole Drills; Trenching Machine (over 12"); Truck Mounted Concrete Pump with Boom; Truck Mounted Concrete Conveyor; Work Boat (no license required - 90 h.p. or above); Underground Boring and/or Mining Machines; 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 (large self-propelled - excluding walk-behinds and hand-held); 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; All Locomotives, Dinky; Off-Road Hauling Units; Non-Self Loading Dump; Ejection Dump; Pump Cretes: Squeeze Cretes - Screw Type Pumps, Gypsum Bulker and Pump; Roller, Asphalt; Rotary Snow Plows; Rototiller, Seaman, etc., self-propelled; Scoops - Tractor Drawn; Self-Propelled Compactor; Spreader - Chip - Stone, etc.; Scraper; Scraper - Prime Mover in Tandem (Regardless of Size); Tank Car Heater; Tractors, Push, Pulling 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.; Fireman on Boilers; 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 - Small and Large; Asphalt Spreader, Backend Man; Bobcat (Skid Steer) all; Brick Forklift; Combination - Small Equipment Operator; Directional Boring Machine up to 12"; Generators; Heaters, Mechanical; Hydraulic Power Unit (Pile Driving, Extracting, or Drilling); Hydro-Blaster; Light Plants, All (1 through 5); Pumps, over 3" (1 to 3 not to exceed a total of 300 ft.); Pumps, Well Points; Tractaire; Trencher 12" and under; Welding Machines (2 through 5); Winches, 4 Small Electric Drill Winches. Class 5. Oilers and Directional Boring Machine Locator. Class 6. Field Mechanics and Field Welders Class 7. Gradall and machines of like nature. OPERATING ENGINEERS - BUILDING (West) Class 1. Shovel; Concrete Spreader; Dipper Dredge Operator; Dipper Dredge Crane man; Dual Purpose Truck (boom, Boom, Winch, etc.); Pile Driver; Boom Tractor or Side Boom; Trenching Machine (40 H.P. and over); Building Hoist (1, 2 or 3 drums); Cleaning and Priming Machine; Backfiller (throw bucket); Locomotive Engineer; Concrete Paver; Slip Form Paver; Caisson Augering Machines; Mucking Machine; Asphalt Heater-Planer Unit; Laser Screed; Pug Mill; Concrete Conveyor or Pump; Mechanical loaded Log Chippers or similar machines; Group Equipment Greaser; Off-Road Haul Units; Pipe Bending; Automatic Curbing Machines; Blastholer; Self-Propelled Rotary Drill or similar machines; Work Boat; Combination Concrete Finishing Machine and Float; Asphalt Paver Screed Operator; Forklift (6,000 lb. cap. or over or working heights 28 ft. and above); Chip Spreader; Straddle Carrier; Asphalt Paver; Asphalt Plant Operator; Boring Machine (Directional, Vertical, or Horizontal); Central Redi-Mix Plant Operator; Combination Backhoe Front End loader; Concrete Breaker or Hydro-Hammer (excluding walk-behinds); Concrete Wheel Saw (Large self-propelled - excluding walk-behinds); Crusher (Stone, Concrete, Asphalt, etc.); Curing-Tinning Machine; Excavator; Farm-type Tractor Operating Scoop or Scraper or with Power Attachment; Grader; Motor Grader; Motor Patrol; Auto Grader; Form Grader; Pull Grader; Sub Grader; Elevating Grader; Guard Rail Post Driver; Hoists; Hydraulic Dredge Leverman or Engineer; Hydro-Vac truck mounted or pull type (excluding hose work), and similar equipment; Loader (Track, Rubber Tire, or Articulated); Milling Machine (excluding walk-behinds); Road Widener-Shoulder Spreader; Scraper (Self- Propelled); Self-Propelled Roller or Tire Roller (on asphalt or Blacktop); Sheep Foot or Pad Foot Compactor (excluding walk- behinds); Steel Track-Type Tractor (Dozer, Push Cat, etc.); Transfer or Shuttle Buggy (excluding motorized wheel barrows and Georgia buggies). Class 2. Asphalt Booster; Fireman and Pump Operator at Asphalt Plant; Mud Jack; Distributor; Self-propelled Roller (other than provided for in Class I); Pump Operator (more than one well-point pump); Trench Machine (under 40 H.P.); Forklift (less than 6,000 lb. cap. or working heights below 28 ft.); Gypsum Pump; Conveyor over 20 H.P.; Light Plant; Boiler (Engineer or Fireman); Mechanical Broom; Driver on Truck Crane or similar machines; Elevator (Permanent inside or Temporary outside); Farm-Type Tractor (without Power Attachment); Grout Pump (excluding hose work). Class 3. Skid Loader; Oiler; Mechanic's Helper; Mechanical Heater (other than steam boiler); Small Outboard Motor Boat (Safety Boat and Life Boat); Engine Driven Welding Machine; Water Pumps; Air Compressor (400 c.f.m. or over); Deck Engineers. Class 4. Leadman - Mechanic or Equipment Greaser. Class 5. Track Excavator with Bucket (4 cubic yard and up to but not including 6 cubic yard). Class 6. Track Excavator with Bucket (6 cubic yard and over). Class 7. Crane (Friction or Hydraulic, regardless of size or attachments); Tow or Push Boat. Class 8. Truck Mounted Concrete Conveyor or Pumps Extending to 90’ or more. Class 9. Crawler Crane Class 10. Mechanic-Welder OPERATING ENGINEERS- HIGHWAY (West) Class 1. Shovel; Concrete Spreader; Dipper Dredge Operator; Dipper Dredge Crane man; Dual Purpose Truck (Boom, Winch, etc.); Pile Driver; Boom Tractor or Side Boom; Building Hoist (1, 2 or 3 drums); Cleaning and Priming Machine; Backfiller (throw bucket); Locomotive Engineer; Concrete Paver; Slip Form Paver; Caisson Augering Machines; Mucking Machine; Asphalt Heater Planer Unit; Laser Screed; Pug Mill; Concrete Conveyor or Pump (excluding truck-mounted); Mechanical loaded Log Chippers or similar machines; Group Equipment Greaser; off-road haul units; Pipe Bending; Automatic Curbing Machines; Blastholer; Self-propelled Rotary Drill or similar machines; Work Boat; Combination Concrete Finishing Machine and Float; Asphalt Paver Screed Operator; Forklift (6,000 lb. cap. or over or working heights above 28 ft.); Chip Spreader; Asphalt Paver; Asphalt Plant Operator; Boring Machine (Directional, Vertical, or Horizontal); Central Redi-Mix Plant Operator; Combination Backhoe Front End loader; Concrete Breaker or Hydro-Hammer (excluding walk-behinds); Concrete Wheel Saw (Large self-propelled - excluding walk-behinds); Crusher (Stone, Concrete, Asphalt, etc.); Curing-Tinning Machine; Excavator; Farm-Type Tractor Operating Scoop or Scraper with Power Attachment; Grader; Motor Grader; Motor Patrol; Auto Grader; Form Grader; Pull Grader; Sub Grader; Elevating Grader; Guard Rail Post Driver; Hoists; Hydraulic Dredge Leverman or Engineer; Hydro-Vac truck mounted or pull type, and similar equipment; Loader (Track, Rubber Tire, or Articulated); Milling Machine (excluding walk-behinds); Road Widener-Shoulder Spreader; Scraper (self-propelled); Self-propelled Roller or Tire Roller (on asphalt or Blacktop); Sheep Foot or Pad Foot Compactor (excluding walk-behinds); Steel Track-Type Tractor (Dozer, Push Cat, etc.); Transfer or Shuttle Buggy (excluding motorized wheel barrows and Georgia buggies); Trenching Machine (40 H.P. and over). Class 2. Asphalt Booster; Fireman and Pump Operator at Asphalt Plant; Mud Jack; Farm-Type Tractor without Power attachment; Distributor; Straddle Carrier; Self-propelled Roller or Compactor (other than provided for in Class I); Pump Operator (more than one well-point pump); Trench Machine (under 40 H.P.); Forklift (less than 6,000 lb. capacity or working heights below 28 ft.); Conveyor over 20 H.P.; Air Compressor (400 c.f.m. or over); Light Plant; Boiler (Engineer or Fireman); Mechanical Broom; Driver on Truck Crane or similar machines; Elevator (Permanent inside or Temporary outside); Grout Pump (excluding hose work). Class 3. Oiler; Mechanic's Helper; Mechanical Heater (other than steam boiler); Small Outboard Motor Boat (Safety Boat and Life Boat); Engine Driven Welding Machine; skid steer. Class 4. Leadman - Mechanic or Equipment Greaser. Class 5. Track Excavator with Bucket (4 cubic yard and up to but not including 6 cubic yard). Class 6. Track Excavator with Bucket (6 cubic yard and over). Class 7. Truck mounted Concrete Conveyor or Pumps Extending to 90 ft. or more. Class 8. Crane (Friction or Hydraulic, regardless of size or attachments); Tow or Push Boat. Class 9. Crawler Crane Class 10. Mechanic-Welder 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. 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.