UnionPile Drivers Local 34 North wages 2026 (Washington)
The hourly rates, overtime, shift, vacation and per diem rules of Pile Drivers Local 34 North in Washington and Oregon, read from the three agreements built into the Pile Driver app. An independent guide: the agreement and your hall have the final word.
Eastern Washington (pile driver sheet)
2025–2028 Eastern Washington/Northern Idaho Area agreement (Inland Northwest AGC and the carpenters' regional council: carpenters, millwrights and pile drivers), Eastern Washington pile driver wage sheet effective June 1 2026
$52.49an hour
Pile driver journeyman, Eastern Washington (pile driver sheet)
From June 1, 2026. No later step published.
| Classification | From June 1, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Pile driver journeymanbase rate | $52.49 |
| Pile driver foremanJM + 7% | $56.16 |
| Pile driver general foremanJM + 14% | $59.84 |
| Apprentice, period 895% | $49.87 |
| Apprentice, period 790% | $47.24 |
| Apprentice, period 685% | $44.62 |
| Apprentice, period 580% | $41.99 |
| Apprentice, period 475% | $39.37 |
| Apprentice, period 370% | $36.74 |
| Apprentice, period 265% | $34.12 |
| Apprentice, period 160% | $31.49 |
- Overtime
- On a 4×10 week overtime starts after 10 hours, and Friday can be a voluntary make-up day at straight time when the job was down for reasons beyond the employer's control, a holiday included; any other Friday hour is time and a half.
- Shift premium
- 7.5 hours worked on shift are paid as 8.
- Vacation and holiday pay
- WAPTO paid sick leave, 2.5% (taxable): paid with wages and sent to the fund, deducted after tax.
- Per diem and travel
- Pile drivers on this agreement get zone pay by the hour (pick the zone above), not a per diem.
Western and central Washington (type your deductions)
Washington, Oregon and Alaska Cascadia Regional Master Agreement (Western States Association of Union Contractors and the carpenters' regional council), Western/Central Washington wage area, pile drivers as filed with Washington Labor and Industries; deductions not published
$68.65 an hour, journey level pile driver, from September 2, 2026.
| Classification | From September 2, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Journey level pile driverbase rate | $68.65 |
- Overtime
- Overtime (Washington's code 11U): hours past 8 a day or 40 a week are time and a half.
- Per diem and travel
- No per diem or subsistence is published for these pile drivers.
Oregon and southwest Washington (type your deductions)
Washington, Oregon and Alaska Cascadia Regional Master Agreement (Western States Association of Union Contractors and the carpenters' regional council), Southwest Washington wage area, at Oregon's prevailing wage Carpenter Group 6 (piledrivers) Zone A rates; deductions not published
$58.06 an hour, group 6 piledriver (journeyman), from July 5, 2026.
| Classification | From July 5, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Group 6 piledriver (journeyman)base rate | $58.06 |
| Group 6 welderJM + 5% | $60.96 |
| Apprentice, period 895% | $55.16 |
| Apprentice, period 790% | $52.25 |
| Apprentice, period 685% | $49.35 |
| Apprentice, period 583% | $48.19 |
| Apprentice, period 480% | $46.45 |
| Apprentice, period 375% | $43.55 |
| Apprentice, period 273% | $42.38 |
| Apprentice, period 160% | $34.84 |
- Overtime
- Overtime (Washington's code 11U): hours past 8 a day or 40 a week are time and a half.
- Per diem and travel
- No per diem or subsistence is published for these pile drivers.
One 40-hour week, worked out
Week of November 8, 2026Pile driver journeyman, Eastern Washington (pile driver sheet)
Example| Day | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hours | 0 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| Earnings | |
|---|---|
| Regular40 h × 52.49 | 2,099.60 |
| WAPTO paid sick leave, 2.5% (taxable)40 h paid, taxable | 52.49 |
| Gross pay | 2,152.09 |
| Deductions | |
| WAPTO to the Vacation/PTO fundafter tax | −52.49 |
| Supplemental duesper hour | −79.20 |
| Vacation sent to the fundper hour | −22.40 |
| Social Security6.2% | −133.43 |
| Medicare1.45% | −31.21 |
| WA paid leave | −17.37 |
| WA Cares | −12.48 |
| Federal income taxestimate (W-4) | −303.65 |
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:
- Eastern Washington (pile driver sheet). The 2025 sheet isn't published, so the foreman and apprentice rates before June 1 2026 are worked out at the agreement's percentages from the $49.76 journeyman rate. June 1 2027 adds $3.24 to the package, to be allocated by the union: then type your new rate under Enter my own rate.
- Eastern Washington (pile driver sheet). The app treats every night as a 2nd shift (7½ for 8), so on a 3rd shift your stub pays a little more. A special shift on public work in Washington pays the base + $2.00 an hour when more than 4 hours fall outside 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.: use Enter my own rate with the $2.00 added. A recall without an 8-hour break stays at the overtime rate.
- Eastern Washington (pile driver sheet). The 2025 dues amount isn't published; the app uses $1.98 for 2025 weeks too.
- Eastern Washington (pile driver sheet). The sheet counts it in your total taxable wage, so the app adds it to your taxable pay and then sends it to the fund after tax (take-home is the same either way; only the tax differs). It works out 2.5% of the rate exactly; the sheet rounds it per hour. How it shows on a real stub isn't published: check yours.
- Eastern Washington (pile driver sheet). The app adds it for every hour worked, taxable, not multiplied on overtime (the agreement doesn't say it is).
- Western and central Washington (type your deductions). Labor and Industries put the 2026 rate in force on September 2 2026 and doesn't print the agreement's own date (Davis-Bacon dated the 2025 step June 1, so the 2026 step was probably June 1 2026); the app starts it on September 2 2026, the careful choice: for June to August 2026 weeks your stub may show the new rate. Apprentice pay is printed only as a share of an old whole package, not of the wage, so apprentices aren't built in: use Enter my own rate.
- Western and central Washington (type your deductions). On a 4×10 the app pays a worked Friday at time and a half up to 12 hours; on a make-up Saturday it pays every hour past 10 at time and a half (hours past 12 should be double); tide-work hours: enter them as overtime by logging them on a Saturday-rate day or use Enter my own rate.
- Western and central Washington (type your deductions). No other shift premium is published, so the app adds nothing for night work; leave Night off.
- Western and central Washington (type your deductions). Whether a holiday not worked is paid isn't printed, so the app pays nothing for it.
- Western and central Washington (type your deductions). With nothing typed, nothing comes off for dues, so take-home here is higher than your stub until you do.
- Oregon and southwest Washington (type your deductions). Washington's filing shows the 2026 rate from September 2 2026, Oregon's from July 5 2026 (the agreement's own date, probably June 1, isn't printed); the app uses July 5 for both states. Oregon's April 5 2026 amendment printed Group 6 at $55.63, below both union rates; the app leaves it out. Oregon warns that its apprentice percentages may differ from the committee's standards. The 2027 rates aren't known: type your new rate under Enter my own rate when they come.
- Oregon and southwest Washington (type your deductions). On a 4×10 the app pays a worked Friday at time and a half up to 12 hours; on a make-up Saturday it pays every hour past 10 at time and a half (hours past 12 should be double); tide-work hours: enter them as overtime by logging them on a Saturday-rate day or use Enter my own rate. Oregon prints no overtime text for the agreement; it's the same agreement, so the app uses Washington's code for both states.
- Oregon and southwest Washington (type your deductions). No other shift premium is published, so the app adds nothing for night work; leave Night off.
- Oregon and southwest Washington (type your deductions). Whether a holiday not worked is paid isn't printed, so the app pays nothing for it.
- Oregon and southwest Washington (type your deductions). Whether zone pay is multiplied on overtime isn't printed, so the app adds it for every hour worked, not multiplied.
- Oregon and southwest Washington (type your deductions). With nothing typed, nothing comes off for dues, so take-home here is higher than your stub until you do.
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Questions
What does a Local 34 North pile driver journeyman make in 2026?
$52.49 an hour under the 2025–2028 Eastern Washington/Northern Idaho Area agreement (Inland Northwest AGC and the carpenters' regional council: carpenters, millwrights and pile drivers), Eastern Washington pile driver wage sheet effective June 1 2026, from June 1, 2026. The other agreements on this page: Western and central Washington (type your deductions) $68.65 and Oregon and southwest Washington (type your deductions) $58.06.
When is the next Local 34 North raise?
No later step is published in the data for the Eastern Washington (pile driver sheet) agreement. Rates usually change once a year; check the schedule before you count on a raise.
What do Local 34 North apprentices make?
Apprentice, period 8 $49.87 (95%), Apprentice, period 7 $47.24 (90%), Apprentice, period 6 $44.62 (85%), Apprentice, period 5 $41.99 (80%), Apprentice, period 4 $39.37 (75%), Apprentice, period 3 $36.74 (70%), Apprentice, period 2 $34.12 (65%) and Apprentice, period 1 $31.49 (60%) an hour from June 1, 2026.
Does Local 34 North pay a per diem?
Pile drivers on this agreement get zone pay by the hour (pick the zone above), not a per diem.
How is Local 34 North overtime paid?
On a 4×10 week overtime starts after 10 hours, and Friday can be a voluntary make-up day at straight time when the job was down for reasons beyond the employer's control, a holiday included; any other Friday hour is time and a half.
Sources
The agreements and schedules these numbers were read from. Built October 25, 2026 from the Pile Driver app, version 0.1.0.
- Eastern Washington carpenters, millwrights and pile drivers 2026 (council letter and wage sheets, pile driver p.4)
- Eastern Washington/Northern Idaho Area agreement 2025–2028 (Inland Northwest AGC)
- Memorandum: Washington paid sick time (WAPTO to the Vacation/PTO trust)
- Davis-Bacon WA20260001 rev 4 (CARP0059-021, eastern Washington piledriver)
- Washington Labor and Industries prevailing wage lookup (Western/Central WA pile drivers, codes 11U and 15J)
- Washington benefit code key (11U, 15J)
- North Coast States Carpenters, local unions (Local 34 North)
- Oregon BOLI prevailing wage rates, September 3 2026 (Carpenter Group 6 piledrivers, zones and premiums, printed p.5-6)
- Oregon BOLI rate book July 5 2026
- Oregon BOLI rate book July 5 2025
- Oregon BOLI apprentice rates, October 5 2026 (p.2)
- Oregon BOLI apprentice rates, January 5 2026 (p.2)
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