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Prevailing Wages in Elko County, Nevada

Prevailing wages in Elko County, Nevada run $47.87 to $123.27 per hour (base rate plus fringe benefits) across the 50 Davis-Bacon determination records shown below, which is page one of a larger set. The median total is $77.09, and among the 48 records that list a fringe separately the median fringe is $34.85. The applicable rate depends on the labor classification, the construction type and the funding source.

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#federal – Boilermaker: Journeyman in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $76.62
Base Rate: $76.62
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#federal – Bricklayer: Journeyman in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $64.38
Base Rate: $45.94  |  Fringe: $18.44
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#federal – Carpenter: Journeyman in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $68.42
Base Rate: $43.13  |  Fringe: $25.29
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#federal – Cement Mason: Journeyman in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $56.92
Base Rate: $43.06  |  Fringe: $13.86
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#federal – Electrician-neon Sign: Journeyman in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $63.15
Base Rate: $63.15
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#federal – Electrician-wireman: Cable Splicer in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $86.44
Base Rate: $55.78  |  Fringe: $30.66
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#federal – Electrician-wireman: Wireman in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $78.49
Base Rate: $48.50  |  Fringe: $29.99
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#federal – Fence Erector: Journeyman in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $53.28
Base Rate: $35.70  |  Fringe: $17.58
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#federal – Flagperson: Journeyman in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $51.16
Base Rate: $33.58  |  Fringe: $17.58
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#federal – Highway Stripers: Journeyman in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $55.78
Base Rate: $38.20  |  Fringe: $17.58
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#federal – Hod Carrier-brick Mason Tender: Journeyman in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $53.53
Base Rate: $35.95  |  Fringe: $17.58
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#federal – Ironworker: Journeyman in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $90.97
Base Rate: $51.85  |  Fringe: $39.12
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#federal – Laborers: Group 1-a (Flagger) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $51.16
Base Rate: $33.58  |  Fringe: $17.58
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#federal – Laborers: Group 1 (All Cleanup Work of Debris, Grounds, Ard Buiding Including Windows and Tile; Dumpmen or Spotter (other Than Asphalt); Handling Ard Servicing of Flares, Watchmen; Gereral Laborer; Guideposts and Highway Signs; Guardrail Erection Ard Dismantling; Limber, Brushloader Ard Piler; Pavement Marking and Highway Striping; Tending to Portable Space Heaters; Profilograph Work All Types Manual, Self Propelled or Carts; Gabion Basket, Building, Handling, Installation and Rigging; Dry Set Paver Work; Traffic Barrier Erector) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $53.03
Base Rate: $35.45  |  Fringe: $17.58
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#federal – Laborers: Group 3a (Concrete Specialist; Setting Screeds; Screed Pins; Curb Forms and Curb and Gutter Forms; Using Darby and Push Floats; Hard Trowels or Hard Floating; Marking Edging; Using Base Cove or Step Tools; Spreading and Finishing Gypsurr; Concrete Grinding Machines (the Terms Does Not Include Rotomill Machines for Highway Overlay Grinding); Trowelig Machines; Floating Machines; Finishing of Epoixy or Resin Materials; Operator of Skill Saw; Laser Screed; Laser Level) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $56.71
Base Rate: $39.13  |  Fringe: $17.58
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#federal – Laborers: Group 3 (Asphalt Workers (ironers, Shovelers, Cutting Machine); Buggymobile; Chairsaw, Faller, Logloader and Bucker; Compactor (All Types); Concrete Mixer Under 1/2 Yard; Concrete Pan Work (Breadpan Type), Handling, Cleaning\stripping; Concrete Saw, Chipping, Grinding, Sanding, Vibrator; Cribbing, Shoring, Lagging, Trench Jacking, Hand-guided Lagging Hammer; Curbing or Divider Machine; Curb Setter (Precase or Cut); Ditching Machine (Hand-guided); Drillers Helper, Chuck Tender; Fence Erector Including Safety, Chain Link, Turtle, Field and Barbe Wire Fencing; Form Raiser, Slip Forms; Grouting of Concrete Walls, Windows and Door Jams; Headerboardmen; Jackhammer, Pavement Breaker, Air Spade; Mastic Worker (Wet or Dry); Pipewrapper, Kettlemen, Potmen, and Men Applying Ashphalt, Creosote and Similar Type Materials; All Power Tools (Air, Gas, or Electric), Post Driver; Riprap-stonepaver and Rockslinger, Including Placing of Sack Concrete Wet or Dry Rototiller; Rigging and Signaling in Connection With Laboeres' Work; Sandblaster, Potmen, Gunmen or Nozzlemen Water Blasting Not Covered in Group 6; Vibra-screed; All Demolition and Wrecking Work Including but Not Limited to Any Torch Work Cutting, Burning, Plasma Are, Dust Control, and Salvaging (Removing and Salvaging of All Materials, Windows, Doors, Plumbing, and Electrical Fixtures)And Use of Customary Tolls and Equipment for Demolition and Wrecking; All Underpinning Foundation Work, Digging and Underpinning Pits, Removal of Debris With Tuggers or Other Methods, Cutting, Handling and Installing All Shoring Boards and Lagging Boards Used for Underpinning and Foundation Work, Placement and Tying of Steel Reinforcing for Underpinning Piers, All Tiebacks and Soil Nail Work Drilling and Grouting, All Soldier Beam Work and Us of Customary Toools and Eqiupment for Underpinning Foundation Work.) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $53.28
Base Rate: $35.70  |  Fringe: $17.58
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#federal – Laborers: Group 5a (Pavement Marking and Highway Striping; Pavement Marking; Pavement Marking and Highway Striping Work Includes but Is Not Limited to: All Work by and Any Method Preformed in Connection With the Permanent or Temporary Application and Installation of Pavement Marking of Any Kind, Brand, Type or Style on Parking Lots, Airfields, Highways, Streets and Other Such Surfaces and All Work Performed in Connection With Removal of Pavement.) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $55.78
Base Rate: $38.20  |  Fringe: $17.58
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#federal – Laborers: Group 5 (Construction Specialists; Blasters and Powdermen, All Work of Loading, Placing, and Blasting of All Power and Explosives of Any Type, Regardless of Method Used for Such Loading and Placing Asbestos Removal; Lead Abatement; Hazardous Waste; Material Removal) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $53.83
Base Rate: $36.25  |  Fringe: $17.58
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#federal – Laborers: (Group 6)Gunmen, Materialmen in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $52.83
Base Rate: $35.25  |  Fringe: $17.58
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#federal – Laborers: (Group 6)Nozzleman, Rodmen in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $52.83
Base Rate: $35.25  |  Fringe: $17.58
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#federal – Laborers: (Group 6)Reboundmen in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $53.18
Base Rate: $35.60  |  Fringe: $17.58
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#federal – Laborers: Landscape in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $47.87
Base Rate: $30.29  |  Fringe: $17.58
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#federal – Operating Engineers: Group 10a (Backhoe-hydraulic (up to an Including One (1)Cu. Yd.); Backhoe (Up to an Including One (1)Cu.yd) (Cable); Cmi Dual Lane Auto-grader Sp30 or Similar Type; Cranes (Not Over Twenty-five (25)Tons) (Hammerhead and Gantry); Finish Blade; Gradalls (Up to and Including One (1)Cu. Yd.); Motor Patrol Operator; Power Shovels, Clamshells, Draglines, Cranes (Up to and Including One (1)Cu. Yd); Rubber-tired Scraper, Self- Loading (Twin Engine); Self-propelled Boom- Type Lifting Device, Center Mount (Over 10 Tons Up to and Including 25 Tons)) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $79.63
Base Rate: $44.78  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers: Group 10 (Boom-type Backfilling Machine; Bridge Crane; Cary-lift or Similar; Chemical Grouting Machine; Chief of Party; Derricks (two (2)Group 10 Operators Required When Swing Engine Remote from Hoist); Derrick Barges (Except Excavation Work); Euclid Loader and Similar Types; Heavy Duty Repairman; Heavy Duty Rotary Drill Rigs; Lift-slab (Vagtborg and Similar Types); Loader (Over Two and One-half (2 1/2 Cu. Yds. Up to an Including Four (4)Cu. Yds.); Locomotive (Over One Hundred (100)Tons, Single or Multiple Units); Multiple-engine Earthmoving Machines (Euclid Dozers, Etc.)Pre-stress Wire Wrapping Machine; Rubber-tired Scraper, Self-loading; Single-engine Scraper (Over Thirty-five (35)Cu. Yds.); Shuttle Car (Reclaim Station); Train Loading Station; Trenching Machine Multi-engine With Sloping Attachments (Jefco or Similar); Vacuum Cooling Plant; Whirley Crane (Up to and Including Twenty-five (25)Tons)) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $79.44
Base Rate: $44.59  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers: Group 11a (Band Wagons (in Conjuction With Wheel Excavators); Operator of Helicopter (When Used in Construction Work); Loader (Over Twelve (12)Cu. Yds.); Multi-engine Earthmoving Equipment (Over Seventy-five (75)Cu. Yds. ""stuck"" M.r.c); Power Shovels, Clamshells, Draglines, Backhoes, and Gradalls (Over Seven 7 Cu. Yds. M.r.c.); Remote-controlled Earth Moving Equipment; Wheel Excavator (Over Seven Hundred Fifty (750)Cu. Yds. Per Hour)) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $81.51
Base Rate: $46.66  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers: Group 11 (Automatic Asphalt or Concrete Slip-form Paver; Automatic Railroad Car Dumper; Canal Trimmer; Cary Lift, Campbell or Similar Type; Cranes (over Twenty-five (25)Tons); Euclid Loader When Controlled from the Pullcat; Finish Blade; Gradesetter, Grade Checker; Highline Cableway Operator; Loader (Over Four (4)Cu. Yds. Up to an Including Tweleve (12)Cu. Yds.); Multi-engine Earthmoving Equipment (Up to and Including Seventy-five (75)Cu. Yds. Struck M.r.c); Multi-engine Scrapers (When Used to Push Pull); Power Shovels, Clamshells, Draglines, Backhoes Gradalls (Over One (1)Cu. Yd. and Up to and Including Seven (7)Cu. Yds. M.r.c); Self-propelled Boom-type Lifing Device (Center Mount ( Over 25 Tons M.r.c); Self-propelled Compactor (With Multiple-propulsion Power Units); Single-engine Rubber-tired Earthmoving Machine, With Tandem Scraper; Slip-form Paver (Concrete or Asphalt); Tandem Cats and Scraper; Tower Crane Mobile (Including Rail Mount); Truck Mounted Hydraulic Crane When Remote Control Equipped (Over 10 Tons Up to and Including 25 Tons); Universal Liebher and Tower Cranes (And Similar Types); Wheel Excavator (Up to an Including Seven Hundred Fifty (750)Cu. Yds. Per Hour); Whirley Cranes (Over Twenty-five (25)Tons)) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $79.87
Base Rate: $45.02  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers: Group 11b (Holland Loader or Similar or Loader (over 18 Cu. Yds.)) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $82.32
Base Rate: $47.47  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers: Group 1a (Oiler (construction); Partsman) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $75.92
Base Rate: $41.07  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers: Group 2 (Compressor Operator; Material Loader and /or Conveyor Operator (handling Bulding Materials); Pump Operator) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $76.45
Base Rate: $41.60  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers: Group 3 (Bobcat or Similar Loader, 1/4 Cu . Yd. or Less; Corcrete Curing Machines (streets, Highways, Airports, Canals); Conveyor Belt Operator (Tunnel); Forklift (Under 20); Engineer Generating Plant (500 K. W.); Mixer Box Operator (Concrete Plant); Motorman; Rodman/Chainman; Rotomist Operator; Olier (Truck Crane)) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $76.72
Base Rate: $41.87  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers: Group 4 (Concrete Mixer Operator, Skip Type; Dink Operator; Forklift (20' or Over)Or Lumber Stacker; Ross Carrier; Skip Loader Operator (Under One (1)Cu. Yd.); Tie Spacer) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $77.46
Base Rate: $42.61  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers: Group 5 (Concrete Mixer (over One (1)Cu. Yd.); Concrete Pumps or Pumpcrete Guns; Elevator and Material Hoist (One (1)Drum); Groundman for Asphalt Milling and Similar) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $77.77
Base Rate: $42.92  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers: Group 6 (Auger Type Drilling Equipment Up to and Includting 30 Ft. Depth Digging Capacity M.r.c; Boom Truck or Dua-purpose A-frame Truck; B.l.h Lima Road Pactor or Similar; Chip Box Spreader (flaherty Type or Similar); Concrete Batch Plant (Wet or Dry); Concrete Saws (Highways, Streets, Airports, Canals); Locomotives (Over Thirty (30)Tons); Maginnis International Full Slab Vibrator (Airports, Highways, Canals, and Warehouses); Mechanical Fishers (Concrete) (Clary, Johnson Bidwell Bridge Deck or Similar Types); Mechanical Burn, Curb and /or Curb and Gutter Machine (Concrete or Asphalt); Pavement Breaker, Truck Mounted, With Compressor Combination; Pavement Breaker or Tamper (With or Without Compressor Combination); Power Jumbo Operator (Setting Slip-forms, Etc., in Tunnels); Roller Operator (Except Asphalt); Self-propelled Tape Machine; Self-propelled Compactor (Single Engine); Self-propelled Power Sweeper Operator; Slip-form Pum (Power-driven by Hydraulic, Electric, Air, Gas, Etc. Lifiting Device for Concrete Forms; Small Rubber-tied Tractors; Snooper Crane, Paxton-mitchell or Similar; Stationary Pipe Wrapping, Cleaning and Bending Machine Operator) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $77.93
Base Rate: $43.08  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers: Group 7 (Auger Type Drilling Equipment Over 30 Ft. Depth Digging Capacity M.r.c; Compressor (over 2); Concrete Conveyor or Concrete Pump, Truck or Equipment Mounted (Any Assistance Requried Shall Be Performed by an Assistant to Engineer)Boom Length to Apply Concrete Conveyor, Building Site; Drilling and Boring Machine, Vertical and Horizontal (Not to Apply to Waterliners, Wagon Drills or Jack Hammers); Crusher Plant Engineer; Generators; Instrument Man; Kolman Loader; Material Hoist (Two (2)Or More Drums); Mine or Shaft Hoist; Pipe Bending Machines (Pipeline Only); Pipe Cleaning Machines (Tractor-propelled and Supported); Pipe Wrapping Machines (Tractor-propelled and Supported); Portable Crushing and Screening Plants; Post Driller and/or Driver; Pumps (Over 2); Screedman (Except Asphaltic or Concrete Paving); Self-propelled Boom-type Lifting Device (Center Mount) (On Ten (10)Ton Capacity or Less); Slusher Operator; Soil Tester (Certified); Surface Heater and Planer Operator; Trenching Machine (Maximum Digging Capacity Three (3)Ft. Depth) (Any Assistance in the Operation, If Needed, Shall Be Performed by an Assistant to Engineer); Truck-type Loader; Welding Machines (Gasoline or Diesel)) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $78.18
Base Rate: $43.33  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers: Group 8 (Articulated On-site Dump Trucks; Asphalt Plant Engineer; Apshalt Milling Machine; Cast-in-place Pipe-laying Machine; Combination Slusher and Motor Operator; Concrete Batch Plant (multiple Units); Dozer Operator; Drill Doctor; Elevating Grader Operator; Stiff Frame Off Road Haul Trucks; Grooving and Grinding Machine (Highways); Ken Seal Operator; Marination Plant; Loader (Up to and Including Two and One-half (2 1/2)Cu. Yds); Mechanical Finishers or Spreader Machine (Asphalt, Barber-greene or Similar); Shuttle Buggy; Mechanical Trench Shield; Mixermobile; Push Cats; Road Oil Mixing Machine Operator Wood-mixer (And Other Similr Pugmill Equipment); Roller Operator (Asphalt); Rubber-tired Earthmoving Equipment (Up to and Including Thirty-five (35)Cu. Yds. ""struck"" M.r.c., Euclids, T-pulls, Dw10, 20, 21 and Similar); Water Pull; Screedman (Barber-greene and Similar) (Asphaltic or Concrete Paving); Self-propelled Compactors With Dozer; Hyster 450, Cat 825 or Similar; Sheepfoot; Small Tractor (With Boom); Soil Stabilizer (P&h or Equal); Timber Skidder (Rubber-tired)Or Similar Equipment; Track Loader; Tractor-drawn Scraper; Tractor Operator; Tractor-mounted Compressor Drill Combination; Trenching Machine Operator (Over Three (3)Feet Depth); Tri-batch Paver; Tunnerl Badger or Tunnel Boring Machine Operator; Tunnel Mole Boring Machine; Vermeer T-600b Rock Cutter; Vacuum Truck (Excludes Trailer Mounted Vaccums)) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $78.72
Base Rate: $43.87  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers Steel Fabricator & Erector: Group 1 (Cranes Over 100 Tons; Derrick Over 100 Tons; Self-propelled Boom Type Devices Over 100 Tons) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $88.46
Base Rate: $53.61  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers Steel Fabricator & Erector: Group 1 Oiler in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $80.33
Base Rate: $45.48  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers Steel Fabricator & Erector: Group 1 Truck Crane Oiler in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $82.29
Base Rate: $47.44  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers Steel Fabricator & Erector: Group 2 (Cranes Over 45 Tons Up to and Including 100 Tons; Derrick, 100 Tons and Under; Self-propelled Boom Type Lifting Device, Over 45 Tons; Tower Crane) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $86.95
Base Rate: $52.10  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers Steel Fabricator & Erector: Group 2 Oiler in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $80.12
Base Rate: $45.27  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers Steel Fabricator & Erector: Group 2 Truck Crane Oiler in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $82.04
Base Rate: $47.19  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers Steel Fabricator & Erector: Group 3 (Cranes, 45 Tons and Under; Self-propelled Boom Type Lifting Device, 45 Tons and Under) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $85.71
Base Rate: $50.86  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers Steel Fabricator & Erector: Group 3 Hydraulic in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $81.49
Base Rate: $46.64  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers Steel Fabricator & Erector: Group 3 Oiler in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $79.90
Base Rate: $45.05  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers Steel Fabricator & Erector: Group 3 Truck Crane Oiler in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $81.82
Base Rate: $46.97  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Operating Engineers Steel Fabricator & Erector: Group 5 (Boom Cat) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $82.88
Base Rate: $48.03  |  Fringe: $34.85
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#federal – Piledriver: Certified Welder in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $69.92
Base Rate: $44.63  |  Fringe: $25.29
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#federal – Piledriver: Diver-diving (Wet Pay) in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $123.27
Base Rate: $97.98  |  Fringe: $25.29
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#federal – Piledriver: Journeyman Driverman in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $68.92
Base Rate: $43.63  |  Fringe: $25.29
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#federal – Piledriver: Stand by Diver in Elko County, Nevada – Highway
Total Wage: $74.28
Base Rate: $48.99  |  Fringe: $25.29
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Common questions

What is the prevailing wage in Elko County, Nevada?

There is no single prevailing wage for a county — each labor classification has its own rate. Across the 50 records listed on this page, total prevailing wage in Elko County, Nevada runs from $47.87 to $123.27 per hour, median $77.09. Find your classification in the list above to get the rate that actually applies.

Which construction types are covered in Elko County, Nevada?

The determinations on this page cover Highway construction. Davis-Bacon splits work into Building, Residential, Highway and Heavy, and the same trade can carry a different rate under each. A Highway rate does not apply to Building work in the same county.

Are these federal or state rates?

This page shows federal determinations. Federal Davis-Bacon rates apply to federal and federally assisted projects; state and city determinations apply to their own public works. Where more than one applies to a project, the higher rate for each classification generally governs.

How current are the Elko County, Nevada rates?

The most recent determination shown here is dated July 30, 2026. WageFinder re-reads the official sources weekly. Every rate links back to its determination on the government source, which is the authoritative document for compliance.