Laborers Local 731 wages 2026 (New York)

The hourly rates, overtime, shift, vacation and per diem rules of LiUNA Local 731 in New York, read from the one agreement built into the Laborer app. An independent guide: the agreement and your hall have the final word.

Excavation, foundation and heavy construction (NYC Comptroller)

Laborer, Heavy and Highway (foundation, concrete, excavating, street pipe layer and common): the New York City Comptroller's prevailing wage schedule from the Local 731 agreement, July 1 2026 to June 30 2027

$46.60an hour

Laborer, heavy and highway, Excavation, foundation and heavy construction (NYC Comptroller)

From July 1, 2026. No later step published.

Classification	From July 1, 2026
Laborer, heavy and highway (journeyperson)base rate	$46.60
Apprentice, fourth 1,000 hours (90%)90%	$41.94
Apprentice, third 1,000 hours (75%)75%	$34.95
Apprentice, second 1,000 hours (60%)60%	$27.96
Apprentice, first 1,000 hours (50%)50%	$23.30

Overtime: Hours and overtime (Comptroller): time and a half after an 8-hour day and every Saturday hour; Sunday is double time.
Shift premium: 7.5 hours worked on shift are paid as 8.
Per diem and travel: The Comptroller's schedule shows no per diem or travel pay for Local 731.

One 40-hour week, worked out

Week of November 1, 2026Laborer, heavy and highway (journeyperson), Excavation, foundation and heavy construction (NYC Comptroller)

Example

Hours worked each day
Day	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
Hours	0	8	8	8	8	8	0

The paycheck those hours make
Earnings
Regular40 h × 46.60	1,864.00
Gross pay	1,864.00
Deductions
Field dues4.6% of gross wages	−85.74
Social Security6.2%	−115.57
Medicare1.45%	−27.03
NY disability (DBL)	−0.60
NY paid family leave	−8.05
Federal income taxestimate (W-4)	−240.27
New York income taxestimate	−90.65

Take-home$1,296.09

Example only: a journeyman on 5×8 Mon–Fri, no overtime, no shift premium, no per diem. Single, standard withholding; Social Security and Medicare not yet maxed for the year. Your paycheck depends on your hours, your site and your deductions.

What's missing

Where the app can't follow a rule to the letter yet, its notes say so, and say how to allow for it when you enter your hours. From this page's agreements:

These are the city's public-work figures; private work under the agreement may differ in ways the schedule doesn't show.
The agreement's own step dates aren't published, so the app follows the schedule's July 1 start and keeps the 2026 rates after June 30 2027 until the next schedule. The federal Davis-Bacon schedule still prints a 2023 rate ($44.50); the app doesn't use it.
Five 8-hour days only. Enter the hours you're paid for.
The app pays double time on those two days too: to see the triple time, enter one and a half times the hours you worked (12 for 8). It takes the paid holiday as 8 hours (the schedule doesn't say how many), and since the schedule doesn't say when a weekend holiday is observed, it uses the national rule, a Saturday holiday on the Friday before and a Sunday one on the Monday after (Independence Day on Friday July 3 2026).
On a Saturday, Sunday or holiday the app adds no paid-but-not-worked time; don't tick Night on a two-shift job.
Local 731's dues and other check-offs aren't published. The app takes 4.6% of gross wages, the highest flat working-dues percentage in the laborer agreements this app has (Kansas City heavy's supplemental dues), so your take-home here is on the low side: type your local's % on the Settings tab (0 if it takes none). Any vacation or annuity check-off isn't published either.

Work out your own paycheck

Enter your own hours in the Laborer app: it applies these rates, the overtime and holiday rules, dues and tax, and keeps a year of paychecks. Free for a month.

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Questions

What does a Local 731 journeyman make in 2026?

$46.60 an hour under the Laborer, Heavy and Highway (foundation, concrete, excavating, street pipe layer and common): the New York City Comptroller's prevailing wage schedule from the Local 731 agreement, July 1 2026 to June 30 2027, from July 1, 2026.

When is the next Local 731 raise?

No later step is published in the data for the Excavation, foundation and heavy construction (NYC Comptroller) agreement. Rates usually change once a year; check the schedule before you count on a raise.

What do Local 731 apprentices make?

Apprentice, fourth 1,000 hours (90%) $41.94 (90%), Apprentice, third 1,000 hours (75%) $34.95 (75%), Apprentice, second 1,000 hours (60%) $27.96 (60%) and Apprentice, first 1,000 hours (50%) $23.30 (50%) an hour from July 1, 2026.

Does Local 731 pay a per diem?

The Comptroller's schedule shows no per diem or travel pay for Local 731.

How is Local 731 overtime paid?

Hours and overtime (Comptroller): time and a half after an 8-hour day and every Saturday hour; Sunday is double time.

Sources

The agreements and schedules these numbers were read from. Built October 18, 2026 from the Laborer app, version 0.1.0.

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