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Electrical Utility Lineman prevailing wage in Delta County, Michigan

$50.85an hour, fringe benefits included · Ground Person

One rate, fringe benefits included (LEO prints no split)

Delta County uses the same utility lineman rates as 73 other counties. See all of them on one page.

On Michigan public works in Delta County, a utility lineman working as ground person must be paid at least $50.85 an hour. LEO prints one rate with fringe benefits included, so there is no separate base wage.

LEO county rates, November 2025 edition, effective November 1, 2025. The contracting agent gets LEO's rates before advertising and puts them in the specifications; if the contract isn't awarded or started within 90 days of LEO's determination, LEO must redetermine them (MCL 408.1103). Checked against michigan.gov on October 25, 2026.

LEO lists 2 utility lineman rates for Delta County, from $50.85 to $76.81 an hour. See all of them.

LEO prints no wage/fringe split. Derived from its overtime rates (wage = 2 × (time and a half − straight time)), the split would be about $42.94 wage + $7.91 fringe. That's our estimate, not LEO's figure.

One rate, fringe benefits included: $50.85

LEO publishes a single hourly figure that already includes fringe benefits. A contractor can pay it all as wages, or pay part as contributions to bona fide benefit plans for the worker, as long as the two add up to at least $50.85. LEO doesn't publish a base and fringe split, so this page doesn't invent one.

LEO's data note: LEO prints package rates only (wage + fringe at straight time, 1.5x, 2x)

Overtime

When	Per hour
Daily overtime	$72.32
Sunday and holiday	$93.78

Standard overtime unless the classification says otherwise: 1.5× over 8 hours a day (unless four 10-hour days are allowed), over 40 a week and on Saturdays; 2× on Sundays and holidays. The figures are LEO's own (LEO).

When does this rate change?

A contract keeps the rates LEO determined for it, unless it isn't awarded or started within 90 days, when LEO redetermines them (MCL 408.1103).
LEO publishes a new edition every November 1. This page copies the November 2025 edition; Barry, Bay, Benzie and Berrien carry 2026 corrections.

Every utility lineman rate in Delta County

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

Classification	Base wage	Fringe benefits	Total rate	Effective
Ground Person	incl.	incl.	$50.85	Nov 1, 2025
Lineman	incl.	incl.	$76.81	Oct 30, 2025

Davis-Bacon utility lineman rate in Delta County

Federally funded or assisted construction here uses the U.S. Department of Labor's wage determinations. Contracts that already require Davis-Bacon rates are exempt from Michigan's Act, so a Davis-Bacon job uses the federal rate (MCL 408.1102(1)).

We don't put a federal figure next to LEO's here, because this page leads with a classification the federal determinations don't list one to one. The federal rows for this trade are below; match the classification to the work.

Construction	Federal classification	Base wage	Total rate	WD
Highway	LINE CONSTRUCTION: OPERATOR B (SHALL BE PROFICIENT IN OPERATING ANY 2 OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED PIECES OF EQUIPMENT LISTED UNDER OPERATOR A.)ELEC0017-005	$38.98	$59.24	MI20260001 Mod 3
Highway	LINE CONSTRUCTION: OPERATOR A (SHALL BE PROFICIENT IN OPERATING ALL POWER EQUIPMENT INCLUDING: BACKHOE, EXCAVATOR, DIRECTIONAL BORE AND BOOM/DIGGER TRUCK.)ELEC0017-005	$41.71	$62.87	MI20260001 Mod 3
Highway	LINE CONSTRUCTION: JOURNEYMAN SPECIALIST JOURNEYMAN SPECIALIST: REFERS TO A CREW OF ONLY ONE PERSON WORKING ALONEELEC0017-005	$56.65	$82.74	MI20260001 Mod 3
Highway	LINE CONSTRUCTION: JOURNEYMAN SIGNAL TECH, COMMUNICATIONS TECH, TOWER TECH & FIBER OPTIC SPLICERSELEC0017-005	$49.26	$72.92	MI20260001 Mod 3
Highway	LINE CONSTRUCTION: GROUNDMAN/DRIVERELEC0017-005	$33.32	$51.72	MI20260001 Mod 3

Davis-Bacon rates from SAM.gov, read October 25, 2026. Our federal totals are base plus fringe; DOL prints no total. Michigan Davis-Bacon changes

How Delta County compares

The main utility lineman rate in every county that has one. All bars use the same scale.

Every county in Michigan

Rates nearby

Delta Countyfringes included$50.85
Alger Countyfringes included$50.85
Menominee Countyfringes included$50.85
Schoolcraft Countyfringes included$50.85

Electrical Utility Lineman rates in nearby counties

Current LEO rates. LEO sets rates county by county from local union agreements, so neighbouring counties in one agreement's area often match.

LEO's utility lineman rates for Delta County are the same as in 73 other counties: Alcona, Alger, Allegan, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Baraga, Barry and 65 more.

County	Classification	Base wage	Total rate	vs Delta County
Delta County	Ground Person	incl.	$50.85
Alger County	Ground Person	incl.	$50.85	same
Menominee County	Ground Person	incl.	$50.85	same
Schoolcraft County	Ground Person	incl.	$50.85	same
Dickinson County	Ground Person	incl.	$50.85	same
Marquette County	Ground Person	incl.	$50.85	same
Luce County	Ground Person	incl.	$50.85	same

Michigan utility lineman prevailing wage by county, with a map

Are you being paid this rate?

LEO's rate is wage and fringe together: add your hourly wage to what your employer pays into benefit plans for you and compare the sum with the total. LEO Wage and Hour Division, P.O. Box 30476, Lansing, MI 48909 (LEO).

Source

Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO), county rate schedule LEO-November-2025-delta, effective November 1, 2025, page 26: www.michigan.gov/leo/-/media/Project/Websites/leo/Documents/PWRS-By-County/Delta.pdf

We read every county PDF in LEO's November 2025 edition and check every page with a second, separate read; the last run found no mismatches. Where LEO prints the same classification twice in a county without saying where each applies, both rows are shown. How we check · Download Delta County as CSV · Report an error