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Plasterer prevailing wage, Spokane County group, Washington (17 counties)

L&I sets the same plasterer rates, row for row, in 17 counties: Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla and Whitman. Every figure on this page applies in each of them.

$59.83an hour, total

$42.38 wage + $17.45 fringe benefits

On Washington public works in each of these 17 counties, a plasterer must be paid at least $59.83 an hour in total: $42.38 in wages plus $17.45 in fringe benefits for health, pension, vacation, training and other plans. L&I's rate took effect September 2, 2026.

L&I published this rate on August 3, 2026 and it took effect September 2, 2026. Checked against L&I's wage lookup on October 24, 2026.

Base wage and fringe: $42.38 + $17.45

The wage is the taxable hourly rate. The other lines are what Washington law calls "usual benefits": contributions to health, pension, vacation and holiday, apprenticeship and similar plans. A contractor that doesn't provide a benefit pays its value as wages instead (RCW 39.12.010).

Base wage (taxable)$42.38
Health and welfare$8.13
Pension$8.54
Training$0.70
Other benefits$0.08
Total straight-time hourly rate$59.83

Set from: collective bargaining agreement, Plastering Contractors and Operative Plasterers & Cement Masons International Association Local No. 72 Area 2 & 3 Labor Agreement. Where a county has a collective bargaining agreement, L&I adopts its wage and benefits; with more than one, the higher rate prevails. Otherwise L&I uses wage surveys (RCW 39.12.015).

Holidays

L&I holiday code 7K:

Holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day (7). Any holiday which falls on a Sunday shall be observed as a holiday on the following Monday. Any holiday which falls on a Saturday shall be observed as a holiday on the preceding Friday.

When this rate changes

How the Spokane County group compares

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

Every county in Washington

$59.83Adams$81.34Clallam
SpokaneNearby: Adams $59.83, Asotin $59.83, Benton $59.83, Chelan $59.83, Columbia $59.83, Douglas $59.83, Ferry $59.83, Franklin $59.83, Garfield $59.83, Grant $59.83, Lincoln $59.83, Okanogan $59.83, Pend Oreille $59.83, Stevens $59.83, Walla Walla $59.83, Whitman $59.83Each column is a group of counties with about the same main rate; its height is how many. 22 counties pay more than Spokane, 16 the same, 0 less.

Wage and fringe benefits, nearby

  1. Spokane County groupbase $42.38$59.83
  2. Lincoln Countybase $42.38$59.83
  3. Whitman Countybase $42.38$59.83
  4. Kittitas Countybase $56.88$81.34

Which county is in which plasterer group

Every Washington county with a plasterer rate. Counties L&I treats alike share one page; the rest have their own. You pay the rate for the county where the work is done.

CountiesMain classificationTotalBase
King County group, 17 counties: Clallam, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Kittitas, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish, Thurston, Whatcom, YakimaJourney Level$81.34 $56.88 
Clark County group, 5 counties: Clark, Cowlitz, Klickitat, Skamania, WahkiakumJourney Level$68.69 $48.18 
Spokane County group, 17 counties: Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla, WhitmanJourney Level$59.83 $42.38 

3 groups of counties with identical L&I rates, and 0 counties with rates of their own.

Washington plasterer prevailing wage by county, with a map

More from L&I on this rate

  • Scope of work, WAC 296-127-01360: which tasks this trade covers. L&I says the right classification “depends upon determinations published by L&I” (L&I).
  • L&I's prevailing wage lookup, for any county, trade and bid date
  • Apprentices: registered apprentices are paid L&I's apprentice rate for the trade. Anyone without a registered agreement counts as a journey-level worker (RCW 39.12.021).

Every trade's rates, county by county: Adams · Asotin · Benton · Chelan · Columbia · Douglas · Ferry · Franklin · Garfield · Grant · Lincoln · Okanogan · Pend Oreille · Spokane · Stevens · Walla Walla · Whitman

Are you being paid this rate?

Add your wage to what your employer pays into health, pension and other plans for you, and compare it with $59.83. Each contractor files an L&I-approved Statement of Intent to Pay Prevailing Wages before it's paid, and an Affidavit of Wages Paid when the job is accepted (RCW 39.12.040). On contracts over $10,000 the approved intent and L&I's contact details are posted on the job site (RCW 39.12.020).

Source

Washington State Department of Labor & Industries, prevailing wage lookup, Plasterers (PLAS), published August 3, 2026, effective September 2, 2026: secure.lni.wa.gov/wagelookup/. L&I keeps a wage record for each county; for the row this page leads with:

Each figure comes from L&I's lookup and is checked against L&I's CSV export and a second, separate query. How we check · Download every Washington rate as CSV · Report an error