Landscape & Irrigation Laborer prevailing wage in Nicollet County, Minnesota

$54.44an hour, base wage + fringe benefits

$31.66 base wage + $22.78 fringe benefits · Adjacent-county rate

Nicollet County uses the same landscape and irrigation laborer rates as 22 other counties. See all of them on one page.

On Minnesota public works in Nicollet County, a landscape and irrigation laborer must be paid at least $54.44 an hour: a $31.66 base wage plus $22.78 in fringe.

DLI certifications of Nov 3 and Dec 22, 2025 (revised to Feb 9, 2026); this rate, effective December 22, 2025. The rates "must be ascertained before the state asks for bids" and written into the contract, with their dated steps (Minn. Stat. 177.43). Checked against dli.mn.gov on October 25, 2026.

Base wage and fringe benefits: $31.66 + $22.78

The base wage is the taxable hourly wage. DLI prints the fringe 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)	$31.66
Fringe benefits (one figure, not itemized)	$22.78
Total hourly rate, as printed	$54.44

When does this rate change?

Minnesota rates are set before bids and written into the contract, including their dated steps (Minn. Stat. 177.43, subd. 3–4). The schedule in your bid documents controls.
DLI certifies rates at least once a year from a survey of the previous 12 months, and may certify changes at any time (Minn. R. 5200.1020, 5200.1120). Highway/heavy was certified November 3, 2025 and commercial December 22, 2025, with revisions through February 9, 2026.

Davis-Bacon landscape and irrigation laborer rate in Nicollet County

Federally funded or assisted construction here uses the U.S. Department of Labor's wage determinations. When a contract requires both the state rate and the Davis-Bacon rate, paying the higher of the two meets both. The contract documents say which apply.

We don't put a federal figure next to DLI's here, because the federal determinations split this trade into groups that don't line up with DLI's. The federal rows for this trade are below; match the classification to the work.

Construction	Federal classification	Base wage	Total rate	WD
Building	LABORER: LANDSCAPING (GARDENER, SOD LAYER AND NURSERY OPERATOR)SAMN2025-001	$31.66	$54.44	MN20260078 Mod 2
Building	LANDSCAPING EQUIPMENT (INCLUDES HYDRO SEEDER OR MULCHER, SOD ROLLER, FARM TRACTOR WITH ATTACHMENT SPECIFICALLY SEEDING, SODDING, OR PLANT, AND TWO-FRAMED …SAMN2025-001	$22.00	$24.00	MN20260078 Mod 2
Highway, Heavy	LABORER: LANDSCAPING (GARDENER, SOD LAYER AND NURSERY OPERATOR)SAMN2025-001	$31.66	$54.44	MN20260237 Mod 2
Highway, Heavy	LANDSCAPING EQUIPMENT (INCLUDES HYDRO SEEDER OR MULCHER, SOD ROLLER, FARM TRACTOR WITH ATTACHMENT SPECIFICALLY SEEDING, SODDING, OR PLANT, AND TWO-FRAMED …SAMN2025-001	$40.45	$71.39	MN20260237 Mod 2

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

How Nicollet County compares

The main landscape and irrigation 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 Minnesota

Nicollet $54.4438285222

$11.41Murray$54.44Aitkin

NicolletNearby: Sibley $54.44, Blue Earth $54.44, Renville $23.00Each column is a group of counties with about the same main rate; its height is how many. 0 counties pay more than Nicollet, 41 the same, 42 less.

Wage and fringe, nearby

Nicollet Countybase $31.66$54.44
Sibley Countybase $31.66$54.44
Blue Earth Countybase $31.66$54.44
Renville Countybase $21.00$23.00

Landscape & Irrigation Laborer rates in nearby counties

Current DLI rates. Commercial rates are county by county, highway and heavy by area (Minn. R. 5200.1030, 5200.1035).

DLI's landscape and irrigation laborer rates for Nicollet County are the same as in 22 other counties: Aitkin, Benton, Brown, Carlton, Dodge, Douglas, Faribault, Itasca and 14 more. The closest county with a different rate is Renville County, at $23.00.

County	Classification	Base wage	Total rate	vs Nicollet County
Nicollet County	LABORER, LANDSCAPING (GARDENER, SOD LAYER AND NURSERY OPERATOR) (103)	$31.66	$54.44
Sibley County	LABORER, LANDSCAPING (GARDENER, SOD LAYER AND NURSERY OPERATOR) (103)	$31.66	$54.44	same
Blue Earth County	LABORER, LANDSCAPING (GARDENER, SOD LAYER AND NURSERY OPERATOR) (103)	$31.66	$54.44	same
Le Sueur County	LABORER, LANDSCAPING (GARDENER, SOD LAYER AND NURSERY OPERATOR) (103)	$31.66	$54.44	same
Brown County	LABORER, LANDSCAPING (GARDENER, SOD LAYER AND NURSERY OPERATOR) (103)	$31.66	$54.44	same
Watonwan County	LABORER, LANDSCAPING (GARDENER, SOD LAYER AND NURSERY OPERATOR) (103)	$31.66	$54.44	same
McLeod County	LABORER, LANDSCAPING (GARDENER, SOD LAYER AND NURSERY OPERATOR) (103)	$31.66	$54.44	same

Minnesota landscape and irrigation laborer prevailing wage by county, with a map

Notes on this rate

DLI's notes, in DLI's words.

* * Indicates that adjacent county rates were used for the labor class listed.

Are you being paid this rate?

Add your basic rate to what your employer pays into fringe plans for you, and compare it with the total. Contractors post the rates on site and give payroll copies to the contracting agency within 14 days of each pay period (Minn. Stat. 177.43). DLI Prevailing Wage: 651-284-5091.

Source

Department of Labor and Industry (DLI), DLI schedule DLI-C-52-2025-12-22, issued December 22, 2025, effective December 22, 2025, page 466: workplace.doli.state.mn.us/prevwage/report/consolidated/commercial.pdf

We read DLI's consolidated commercial and highway/heavy PDFs line by line and check every number with a second, separate reader. Basic plus fringe equals DLI's printed total on every priced row. How we check · Download Nicollet County as CSV · Report an error