Pile Driver prevailing wage, Howard County group, Indiana (10 counties)

DOL sets the same pile driver rates, row for row, in 10 counties: Adams, Cass, Fulton, Grant, Howard, Huntington, Miami, Tipton, Wabash and Wells. Every figure on this page applies in each of them.

$59.78an hour, base + fringe

$34.45 wage + $25.33 fringe benefits · CARP0615-001

On federally funded or assisted building construction in each of these 10 counties, a pile driver must be paid at least $59.78 an hour: a $34.45 base wage plus $25.33 in fringe benefits, under wage determination IN20260002 (modification 2). DOL prints no total, so $59.78 is our sum of the two.

Wage determination IN20260002, modification 2, published May 18, 2026, for building construction; rate identifier CARP0615-001 (June 1, 2025). Checked against sam.gov on October 25, 2026.

Davis-Bacon is the only prevailing wage here (federally funded or assisted work). Indiana repealed its Common Construction Wage Act effective July 1, 2015, and IC 5-16-7.2-5 bars public agencies from setting wage scales (Indiana DOL).

Base wage and fringe benefits: $34.45 + $25.33

The base wage is the taxable hourly wage. DOL prints the fringe benefits as one hourly figure, not itemized; it can go to health, pension, vacation and training plans, or be paid as cash where the state allows.

Base wage (taxable)	$34.45
Fringe benefits (one figure, not itemized)	$25.33
Base + fringe benefits (our sum; DOL prints no total)	$59.78

When this rate changes

A contract keeps the wage determination in its bid documents. Modifications published before bid opening apply to it, though one published less than 10 days before can be left out if the agency finds there isn't time to tell bidders (29 CFR 1.6(c)).
DOL changes a WD by publishing a numbered modification on SAM.gov. This page reads the modification named in the Source line; the Indiana change log lists what each one changed.

How the Howard County group compares

The main pile driver rate in every county that has one, and how the pay splits here and nearby. All bars use the same scale.

Every county in Indiana

Howard $59.785663

$59.21Dearborn$61.02Elkhart

HowardNearby: Adams $59.78, Cass $59.78, Fulton $59.78, Grant $59.78, Huntington $59.78, Miami $59.78, Tipton $59.78, Wabash $59.78, Wells $59.78Each column is a group of counties with about the same main rate; its height is how many. 9 counties pay more than Howard, 9 the same, 11 less.

Wage and fringe benefits, nearby

Howard County groupbase $34.45$59.78
Tipton Countybase $34.45$59.78
Miami Countybase $34.45$59.78
Kosciusko Countybase $35.51$61.02

Which county is in which pile driver group

Every Indiana county with a pile driver rate. Counties DOL treats alike share one page; the rest have their own.

Counties	Main classification	Base + fringe	Base
Elkhart County group, 3 localities: Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall	CARPENTER & PILEDRIVERMEN (ELKHART, KOSCIUSKO AND MARSHALL COUNTIES)	$61.02	$35.51
Gibson County group, 3 localities: Gibson, Greene, Sullivan	CARPENTER: PILEDRIVER (GREENE, GIBSON AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES)	$60.54	$34.08
Vanderburgh County group, 3 localities: Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick	CARPENTER: PILEDRIVER (POSEY, VANDERBURGH AND WARRICK COUNTIES)	$60.54	$34.04
Howard County group, 10 localities: Adams, Cass, Fulton, Grant, Howard, Huntington, Miami, Tipton, Wabash, Wells	CARPENTER & PILEDRIVERMEN (ADAMS, CASS, FULTON, GRANT, HOWARD, HUNTINGTON, MIAMI, TIPTON, WABASH AND WELLS COUNTIES)	$59.78	$34.45
Allen County group, 5 localities: Allen, DeKalb, Noble, Steuben, Whitley	CARPENTER & PILEDRIVERMEN (ALLEN, DEKALB, NOBLE, STEUBEN AND WHITLEY COUNTIES)	$59.35	$33.42
LaGrange County	CARPENTER & PILEDRIVERMEN (LAGRANGE COUNTY)	$59.35	$33.42
Dearborn County group, 5 localities: Dearborn, Jennings, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland	CARPENTER: PILEDRIVER (DEARBORN, JENNINGS, OHIO, RIPLEY AND SWITZERLAND COUNTIES)	$59.21	$33.43

6 groups of counties with identical DOL rates, and 1 county with rates of its own.

Indiana pile driver prevailing wage by county, with a map

Are you being paid this rate?

Add your base pay to the fringe your employer pays for you, in cash or into plans, and compare the sum with the total. The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division takes complaints: 1-866-487-9243, or dol.gov/agencies/whd/contact/complaints.

Source

U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division (DOL), Davis-Bacon wage determinations on SAM.gov, as of October 25, 2026. For the row this page leads with:

We read every active Indiana Davis-Bacon wage determination from SAM.gov's own data and check every number with a second, independent read of the same file. DOL prints no total; ours is base plus fringe. How we check · Download every Indiana rate as CSV · Report an error