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Laborer prevailing wage in Jones County, Iowa

Which kind of construction is the job?

The kind of construction decides the rate: each wage determination covers one. Residential covers homes and apartments up to four stories.

$48.15an hour, base wage + fringe benefits (our sum)

$28.33 base wage + $19.82 fringe benefits

LABORER (COMMON OR GENERAL) · LABO0043-004

$48.15an hour, base wage + fringe benefits (our sum)

$28.33 base wage + $19.82 fringe benefits

LABORER: COMMON OR GENERAL, MASON TENDER - BRICK, MASON TENDER - CEMENT/CONCRETE, PIPELAYER · LABO0043-008

$41.63an hour, base wage + fringe benefits (our sum)

$27.18 base wage + $14.45 fringe benefits

LABORER: GROUP A - Carpenter tender on bridges and box culverts; CCTV* sewer inspection operator; curb machine (without a seat); deck hand; diamond & core drills; drill operator on air tracs, wagon drills, and similar drills; form setter/stringman on paving work; gunnite nozzleman; joint sealer kettleman; laser operator; mason tender (brick/stone), powderman tender; powderman/blaster; sign erector; saw operator; {(Zones 4 and 5) Skilled pipelayer (sewer, water, and conduits); tunnel laborer; asbestos abatement worker}. *new labor classification (CCTV: closed circuit television). ZONES 1, 2, & 3 (ZONE 1 The Counties of Polk, Warren, and Dallas for all Crafts, and Linn County Carpenters only. ZONE 2 The Counties of Dubuque for all Crafts and Linn County for all Crafts except Carpenters. ZONE 3 The Cities of Burlington (including West Burlington), Clinton, Fort Madison, Keokuk, and Middleton (including the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant) and Muscatine (and abutting municipalities of any such cities) · SAIA2026-001

On federally funded or assisted building construction in Jones County, a laborer must be paid at least $48.15 an hour: a $28.33 base wage plus $19.82 in fringe benefits, under wage determination IA20260078 (modification 1). DOL prints no total, so $48.15 is our sum of the two.

Wage determination IA20260078, modification 1, published May 18, 2026, for building construction; rate identifier LABO0043-004 (May 1, 2025). Checked against sam.gov on October 25, 2026.

On federally funded or assisted residential construction in Jones County, a laborer must be paid at least $48.15 an hour: a $28.33 base wage plus $19.82 in fringe benefits, under wage determination IA20260017 (modification 1). DOL prints no total, so $48.15 is our sum of the two.

Wage determination IA20260017, modification 1, published May 18, 2026, for residential construction; rate identifier LABO0043-008 (May 1, 2025). Checked against sam.gov on October 25, 2026.

On federally funded or assisted highway and heavy construction in Jones County, a laborer must be paid at least $41.63 an hour: a $27.18 base wage plus $14.45 in fringe benefits, under wage determination IA20260028 (modification 4). DOL prints no total, so $41.63 is our sum of the two.

Wage determination IA20260028, modification 4, published June 25, 2026, for highway and heavy construction; rate identifier SAIA2026-001 (May 13, 2026). Checked against sam.gov on October 25, 2026.

Davis-Bacon is the only prevailing wage here (federally funded or assisted work). Iowa has no state prevailing wage law (DOL state table).

DOL lists 9 laborer rates for Jones County, from $36.82 to $48.15 an hour. See all of them.

Base wage and fringe benefits: $28.33 + $19.82

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)$28.33
Fringe benefits (one figure, not itemized)$19.82
Base + fringe benefits (our sum; DOL prints no total)$48.15

Base wage and fringe benefits: $28.33 + $19.82

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)$28.33
Fringe benefits (one figure, not itemized)$19.82
Base + fringe benefits (our sum; DOL prints no total)$48.15

Base wage and fringe benefits: $27.18 + $14.45

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)$27.18
Fringe benefits (one figure, not itemized)$14.45
Base + fringe benefits (our sum; DOL prints no total)$41.63

When does this rate change?

Every laborer rate in Jones County

As DOL lists them. The highlighted row is the one this page leads with.

  1. LABORER (COMMON OR GENERAL)Building · LABO0043-004$48.15
  2. LABORER: PIPELAYERBuilding · LABO0043-015$48.15
  3. LABORER: COMMON OR GENERAL, MASON TENDER - BRICK, MASON TENDER - CEMENT/CONCRETE, PIPELAYERResidential · LABO0043-008$48.15
  4. LABORER: GROUP A - Carpenter tender on bridges and box culverts; CCTV* sewer inspection operator; curb machine (without a seat); deck hand; diamond & core drills; drill operator on air tracs, wagon drills, and similar drills; form setter/stringman on paving work; gunnite nozzleman; joint sealer kettleman; laser operator; mason tender (brick/stone), powderman tender; powderman/blaster; sign erector; saw operator; {(Zones 4 and 5) Skilled pipelayer (sewer, water, and conduits); tunnel laborer; asbestos abatement worker}. *new labor classification (CCTV: closed circuit television). ZONES 1, 2, & 3 (ZONE 1 The Counties of Polk, Warren, and Dallas for all Crafts, and Linn County Carpenters only. ZONE 2 The Counties of Dubuque for all Crafts and Linn County for all Crafts except Carpenters. ZONE 3 The Cities of Burlington (including West Burlington), Clinton, Fort Madison, Keokuk, and Middleton (including the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant) and Muscatine (and abutting municipalities of any such cities)Highway, Heavy · SAIA2026-001$41.63
  5. LABORER: GROUP A - Carpenter tender on bridges and box culverts; CCTV* sewer inspection operator; curb machine (without a seat); deck hand; diamond & core drills; drill operator on air tracs, wagon drills, and similar drills; form setter/stringman on paving work; gunnite nozzleman; joint sealer kettleman; laser operator; mason tender (brick/stone), powderman tender; powderman/blaster; sign erector; saw operator; {(Zones 4 and 5) Skilled pipelayer (sewer, water, and conduits); tunnel laborer; asbestos abatement worker}. *new labor classification (CCTV: closed circuit television). ZONE 5 (All areas of the state not listed)Highway, Heavy · SAIA2026-001$39.87
  6. LABORER: GROUP B - Air, gas, electric tool operator; barco hammer; carpenter tender; caulker; chain sawman; compressor (under 400 cfm); concrete finisher tender; concrete processing materials and monitors; cutting torch on demolition; drill tender; dumpmen; electric drills; fence erectors; form line expansion joint assembler; form tamper; general laborer; grade checker; handling and placing metal mesh, dowel bars, reinforcing bars and chairs; hot asphalt laborer; installing temporary traffic control devices; jack hammerman; mechanical grouter; painter (all except stripers); paving breaker; planting trees, shrubs and flowers; power broom (not self-propelled); power buggyman; rakers; rodman (tying reinforcing steel); sandblaster; seeding and mulching; sewer utility topman/bottom man; spaders; stressor or stretcherman on pre or post tensioned concrete; stringman on re/surfacing/no grade control; swinging stage, tagline, or block and tackle; tampers; timberman; tool room men and checkers; tree climber; tree groundman; underpinning and shoring caissons over twelve feet deep; vibrators; walk behind trencher; walk behind paint stripers; walk behind vibrating compactor; water pumps (under three inch); work from bosun chair. ZONES 1, 2, & 3 (ZONE 1 The Counties of Polk, Warren, and Dallas for all Crafts, and Linn County Carpenters only. ZONE 2 The Counties of Dubuque for all Crafts and Linn County for all Crafts except Carpenters. ZONE 3 The Cities of Burlington (including West Burlington), Clinton, Fort Madison, Keokuk, and Middleton (including the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant) and Muscatine (and abutting municipalities of any such cities)Highway, Heavy · SAIA2026-001$39.78
  7. LABORER: GROUP B - Air, gas, electric tool operator; barco hammer; carpenter tender; caulker; chain sawman; compressor (under 400 cfm); concrete finisher tender; concrete processing materials and monitors; cutting torch on demolition; drill tender; dumpmen; electric drills; fence erectors; form line expansion joint assembler; form tamper; general laborer; grade checker; handling and placing metal mesh, dowel bars, reinforcing bars and chairs; hot asphalt laborer; installing temporary traffic control devices; jack hammerman; mechanical grouter; painter (all except stripers); paving breaker; planting trees, shrubs and flowers; power broom (not self-propelled); power buggyman; rakers; rodman (tying reinforcing steel); sandblaster; seeding and mulching; sewer utility topman/bottom man; spaders; stressor or stretcherman on pre or post tensioned concrete; stringman on re/surfacing/no grade control; swinging stage, tagline, or block and tackle; tampers; timberman; tool room men and checkers; tree climber; tree groundman; underpinning and shoring caissons over twelve feet deep; vibrators; walk behind trencher; walk behind paint stripers; walk behind vibrating compactor; water pumps (under three inch); work from bosun chair. ZONE 5 (All areas of the state not listed)Highway, Heavy · SAIA2026-001$38.02
  8. LABORERS: CLASS B- Tree climber, form setter, potmen (not mechanical), depth grade checker, and cutting torches on demolition work, trencher operator (walk behind), safety boat operators, power buggyman, concrete and paving sawmen, form line and expansion joint assembler, bottomman, caulker-jointer and painter (striper), timber and chair-sawman, mechanical stresser or strechman on post-tension or pre-stressed concrete on or off job, form tamper, air-gas and electric tool opertors-vibrators- Barcohammer-Pavec-tampers-electric drills-hammers and jackhammers, tree groundman, chair tenders-tool room men and checkers, concrete processing material and monitors, stringman on paving work, broom operator (not self propelled), fence erectors, handling and placing of metal mesh, dowel bars, reinforcing baars and chairs, dumpmen and spotters, carring reinforcing rods, corrugated culvert pipe, stake chaser, seeding or mulching and planting of trees shrubs and flowers, water pumps (under 3""), compressors (under 400 CFM), general laborer, rodman, hot asphalt labor, carpenter tender, concrete finisher tender. (MISSISSIPPI RIVER)Heavy · SUIA2002-002$37.82
  9. LABORERS: CLASS B- Tree climber, form setter, potmen (not mechanical), depth grade checker, and cutting torches on demolition work, trencher operator (walk behind), safety boat operators, power buggyman, concrete and paving sawmen, form line and expansion joint assembler, bottomman, caulker-jointer and painter (striper), timber and chair-sawman, mechanical stresser or strechman on post-tension or pre-stressed concrete on or off job, form tamper, air-gas and electric tool opertors-vibrators- Barcohammer-Pavec-tampers-electric drills-hammers and jackhammers, tree groundman, chair tenders-tool room men and checkers, concrete processing material and monitors, stringman on paving work, broom operator (not self propelled), fence erectors, handling and placing of metal mesh, dowel bars, reinforcing baars and chairs, dumpmen and spotters, carring reinforcing rods, corrugated culvert pipe, stake chaser, seeding or mulching and planting of trees shrubs and flowers, water pumps (under 3""), compressors (under 400 CFM), general laborer, rodman, hot asphalt labor, carpenter tender, concrete finisher tender. (MISSOURI RIVER)Heavy · SUIA2002-002$36.82
Hourly rate of each laborer classification in Jones County, highest first, split into wage and fringe benefits.
ClassificationBase wageFringe benefitsTotal rateWD
LABORER (COMMON OR GENERAL)BuildingLABO0043-004$28.33 $19.82 $48.15 IA20260078 Mod 1
LABORER: PIPELAYERBuildingLABO0043-015$28.33 $19.82 $48.15 IA20260078 Mod 1
LABORER: GROUP A - Carpenter tender on bridges and box culverts; CCTV* sewer inspection operator; curb machine (without a seat); deck hand; diamond & core drills; drill operator on air tracs, wagon drills, and similar drills; form setter/stringman on paving work; gunnite nozzleman; joint sealer kettleman; laser operator; mason tender (brick/stone), powderman tender; powderman/blaster; sign erector; saw operator; {(Zones 4 and 5) Skilled pipelayer (sewer, water, and conduits); tunnel laborer; asbestos abatement worker}. *new labor classification (CCTV: closed circuit television). ZONES 1, 2, & 3 (ZONE 1 The Counties of Polk, Warren, and Dallas for all Crafts, and Linn County Carpenters only. ZONE 2 The Counties of Dubuque for all Crafts and Linn County for all Crafts except Carpenters. ZONE 3 The Cities of Burlington (including West Burlington), Clinton, Fort Madison, Keokuk, and Middleton (including the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant) and Muscatine (and abutting municipalities of any such cities)Highway, HeavySAIA2026-001$27.18 $14.45 $41.63 IA20260028 Mod 4
LABORER: GROUP A - Carpenter tender on bridges and box culverts; CCTV* sewer inspection operator; curb machine (without a seat); deck hand; diamond & core drills; drill operator on air tracs, wagon drills, and similar drills; form setter/stringman on paving work; gunnite nozzleman; joint sealer kettleman; laser operator; mason tender (brick/stone), powderman tender; powderman/blaster; sign erector; saw operator; {(Zones 4 and 5) Skilled pipelayer (sewer, water, and conduits); tunnel laborer; asbestos abatement worker}. *new labor classification (CCTV: closed circuit television). ZONE 5 (All areas of the state not listed)Highway, HeavySAIA2026-001
LABORER: GROUP A - Carpenter tender on bridges and box culverts; CCTV* sewer inspection operator; curb machine (without a seat); deck hand; diamond & core drills; drill operator on air tracs, wagon drills, and similar drills; form setter/stringman on paving work; gunnite nozzleman; joint sealer kettleman; laser operator; mason tender (brick/stone), powderman tender; powderman/blaster; sign erector; saw operator; {(Zones 4 and 5) Skilled pipelayer (sewer, water, and conduits); tunnel laborer; asbestos abatement worker}. *new labor classification (CCTV: closed circuit television). ZONE 5 (All areas of the state not listed)
$25.42 $14.45 $39.87 IA20260028 Mod 4
LABORER: GROUP B - Air, gas, electric tool operator; barco hammer; carpenter tender; caulker; chain sawman; compressor (under 400 cfm); concrete finisher tender; concrete processing materials and monitors; cutting torch on demolition; drill tender; dumpmen; electric drills; fence erectors; form line expansion joint assembler; form tamper; general laborer; grade checker; handling and placing metal mesh, dowel bars, reinforcing bars and chairs; hot asphalt laborer; installing temporary traffic control devices; jack hammerman; mechanical grouter; painter (all except stripers); paving breaker; planting trees, shrubs and flowers; power broom (not self-propelled); power buggyman; rakers; rodman (tying reinforcing steel); sandblaster; seeding and mulching; sewer utility topman/bottom man; spaders; stressor or stretcherman on pre or post tensioned concrete; stringman on re/surfacing/no grade control; swinging stage, tagline, or block and tackle; tampers; timberman; tool room men and checkers; tree climber; tree groundman; underpinning and shoring caissons over twelve feet deep; vibrators; walk behind trencher; walk behind paint stripers; walk behind vibrating compactor; water pumps (under three inch); work from bosun chair. ZONES 1, 2, & 3 (ZONE 1 The Counties of Polk, Warren, and Dallas for all Crafts, and Linn County Carpenters only. ZONE 2 The Counties of Dubuque for all Crafts and Linn County for all Crafts except Carpenters. ZONE 3 The Cities of Burlington (including West Burlington), Clinton, Fort Madison, Keokuk, and Middleton (including the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant) and Muscatine (and abutting municipalities of any such cities)Highway, HeavySAIA2026-001$25.33 $14.45 $39.78 IA20260028 Mod 4
LABORER: GROUP B - Air, gas, electric tool operator; barco hammer; carpenter tender; caulker; chain sawman; compressor (under 400 cfm); concrete finisher tender; concrete processing materials and monitors; cutting torch on demolition; drill tender; dumpmen; electric drills; fence erectors; form line expansion joint assembler; form tamper; general laborer; grade checker; handling and placing metal mesh, dowel bars, reinforcing bars and chairs; hot asphalt laborer; installing temporary traffic control devices; jack hammerman; mechanical grouter; painter (all except stripers); paving breaker; planting trees, shrubs and flowers; power broom (not self-propelled); power buggyman; rakers; rodman (tying reinforcing steel); sandblaster; seeding and mulching; sewer utility topman/bottom man; spaders; stressor or stretcherman on pre or post tensioned concrete; stringman on re/surfacing/no grade control; swinging stage, tagline, or block and tackle; tampers; timberman; tool room men and checkers; tree climber; tree groundman; underpinning and shoring caissons over twelve feet deep; vibrators; walk behind trencher; walk behind paint stripers; walk behind vibrating compactor; water pumps (under three inch); work from bosun chair. ZONE 5 (All areas of the state not listed)Highway, HeavySAIA2026-001
LABORER: GROUP B - Air, gas, electric tool operator; barco hammer; carpenter tender; caulker; chain sawman; compressor (under 400 cfm); concrete finisher tender; concrete processing materials and monitors; cutting torch on demolition; drill tender; dumpmen; electric drills; fence erectors; form line expansion joint assembler; form tamper; general laborer; grade checker; handling and placing metal mesh, dowel bars, reinforcing bars and chairs; hot asphalt laborer; installing temporary traffic control devices; jack hammerman; mechanical grouter; painter (all except stripers); paving breaker; planting trees, shrubs and flowers; power broom (not self-propelled); power buggyman; rakers; rodman (tying reinforcing steel); sandblaster; seeding and mulching; sewer utility topman/bottom man; spaders; stressor or stretcherman on pre or post tensioned concrete; stringman on re/surfacing/no grade control; swinging stage, tagline, or block and tackle; tampers; timberman; tool room men and checkers; tree climber; tree groundman; underpinning and shoring caissons over twelve feet deep; vibrators; walk behind trencher; walk behind paint stripers; walk behind vibrating compactor; water pumps (under three inch); work from bosun chair. ZONE 5 (All areas of the state not listed)
$23.57 $14.45 $38.02 IA20260028 Mod 4
LABORERS: CLASS B- Tree climber, form setter, potmen (not mechanical), depth grade checker, and cutting torches on demolition work, trencher operator (walk behind), safety boat operators, power buggyman, concrete and paving sawmen, form line and expansion joint assembler, bottomman, caulker-jointer and painter (striper), timber and chair-sawman, mechanical stresser or strechman on post-tension or pre-stressed concrete on or off job, form tamper, air-gas and electric tool opertors-vibrators- Barcohammer-Pavec-tampers-electric drills-hammers and jackhammers, tree groundman, chair tenders-tool room men and checkers, concrete processing material and monitors, stringman on paving work, broom operator (not self propelled), fence erectors, handling and placing of metal mesh, dowel bars, reinforcing baars and chairs, dumpmen and spotters, carring reinforcing rods, corrugated culvert pipe, stake chaser, seeding or mulching and planting of trees shrubs and flowers, water pumps (under 3""), compressors (under 400 CFM), general laborer, rodman, hot asphalt labor, carpenter tender, concrete finisher tender. (MISSISSIPPI RIVER)HeavySUIA2002-002$29.22 $8.60 $37.82 IA20260002 Mod 2
LABORERS: CLASS B- Tree climber, form setter, potmen (not mechanical), depth grade checker, and cutting torches on demolition work, trencher operator (walk behind), safety boat operators, power buggyman, concrete and paving sawmen, form line and expansion joint assembler, bottomman, caulker-jointer and painter (striper), timber and chair-sawman, mechanical stresser or strechman on post-tension or pre-stressed concrete on or off job, form tamper, air-gas and electric tool opertors-vibrators- Barcohammer-Pavec-tampers-electric drills-hammers and jackhammers, tree groundman, chair tenders-tool room men and checkers, concrete processing material and monitors, stringman on paving work, broom operator (not self propelled), fence erectors, handling and placing of metal mesh, dowel bars, reinforcing baars and chairs, dumpmen and spotters, carring reinforcing rods, corrugated culvert pipe, stake chaser, seeding or mulching and planting of trees shrubs and flowers, water pumps (under 3""), compressors (under 400 CFM), general laborer, rodman, hot asphalt labor, carpenter tender, concrete finisher tender. (MISSOURI RIVER)HeavySUIA2002-002$28.22 $8.60 $36.82 IA20260002 Mod 2
LABORER: COMMON OR GENERAL, MASON TENDER - BRICK, MASON TENDER - CEMENT/CONCRETE, PIPELAYERResidentialLABO0043-008$28.33 $19.82 $48.15 IA20260017 Mod 1

How Jones County compares

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

Every county in Iowa

$12.81Harrison$54.16Scott
JonesNearby: Cedar $24.18, Linn $48.15, Delaware $18.44Each column is a group of counties with about the same main rate; its height is how many. 1 county pays more than Jones, 2 the same, 95 less.

Wage and fringe benefits, nearby

  1. Jones Countybase $28.33$48.15
  2. Cedar Countybase $17.25$24.18
  3. Linn Countybase $28.33$48.15
  4. Delaware Countybase $15.21$18.44

Laborer rates in nearby counties

Current DOL rates. Davis-Bacon rates are set for groups of counties, so neighbours often share them; the county where the work is done decides.

CountyClassificationBase wageTotal ratevs Jones County
Jones CountyLABORER (COMMON OR GENERAL)$28.33 $48.15 
Linn CountyLABORER (COMMON OR GENERAL)$28.33 $48.15 same
Dubuque CountyLABORER (COMMON OR GENERAL)$25.03 $43.98 −$4.17
Clinton CountyLABORER: COMMON OR GENERAL$21.31 $32.66 −$15.49
Cedar CountyLABORER: COMMON OR GENERAL$17.25 $24.18 −$23.97
Jackson CountyLABORER: COMMON OR GENERAL$17.25 $24.18 −$23.97
Delaware CountyLABORER: COMMON OR GENERAL$15.21 $18.44 −$29.71

Iowa laborer prevailing wage by county, with a map

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All Jones County prevailing wage rates

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Source

U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division (DOL), wage determination IA20260078 Mod 1, published May 18, 2026: sam.gov/wage-determination/IA20260078/1

We read every active Iowa 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 Jones County as CSV · Report an error