UnionPipefitters Local 9 wages 2026 (New Jersey)
The hourly rates, overtime, shift, vacation and per diem rules of UA Local 9 in New Jersey, read from the one agreement built into the Pipefitter app. An independent guide: the agreement and your hall have the final word.
Commercial Division
Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union No. 9 (Central New Jersey), Commercial Division economic package July 1 2026 to June 30 2027
$62.62an hour
Journeyman, Commercial Division
From July 1, 2026. No later step published.
| Classification | From July 1, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Journeymanbase rate | $62.62 |
| ForemanJM + 8% | $67.63 |
| Assistant general foremanJM + 9% | $68.26 |
| General foremanJM + 14% | $71.39 |
| Apprentice, 5th year75% | $46.97 |
| Apprentice, 4th year65% | $40.70 |
| Apprentice, 3rd year55% | $34.44 |
| Apprentice, 2nd year45% | $28.18 |
| Apprentice, 1st year35% | $21.92 |
- Overtime
- The agreement itself isn't public: the wages, shift differentials and deductions are followed exactly, and the overtime and holiday rules below are marked Approximation.
- Shift premium
- 10% of the rate on every hour worked on shift.
- Per diem and travel
- Local 9 doesn't publish a per diem.
One 40-hour week, worked out
Week of October 25, 2026Journeyman, Commercial Division
Example| Day | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hours | 0 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| Earnings | |
| Regular40 h × 62.62 | 2,504.80 |
| Gross pay | 2,504.80 |
| Deductions | |
| Field dues3.5% of gross wages | −87.67 |
| Working assessment, $1.75 an hour (includes $0.10 UA Organizing Fund)per hour | −70.00 |
| Personal fund (part of your wage, saved for you)per hour | −40.00 |
| Benevolent fundper hour | −6.00 |
| Political action fundper hour | −24.00 |
| Building fundper hour | −18.00 |
| Social Security6.2% | −155.30 |
| Medicare1.45% | −36.32 |
| NJ unemployment | −9.58 |
| NJ workforce fund | −1.06 |
| NJ disability (TDI) | −4.76 |
| NJ family leave (FLI) | −5.76 |
| Federal income taxestimate (W-4) | −384.50 |
| New Jersey income taxestimate | −130.72 |
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:
- Local 9's overtime and holiday rules aren't published. The app uses the most common pattern in the agreements that publish theirs: past 8 hours a day Monday to Friday and every Saturday hour are time and a half, with no step to double time on a weekday; Sundays and holidays are double time. Five 8-hour days only (any 4×10 rules aren't published); enter the hours you're paid for, not an unpaid lunch. Check overtime against your stub.
- The holiday list isn't published either, so the app marks the six holidays every pipe trades agreement read for this app has: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, each on its own date (one on a weekend doesn't move), unpaid unless worked and double time when worked. Tick Holiday on any other day your job observes. Show-up pay isn't published either: enter the hours you're paid for.
- The app can hold one differential, so it pays the smallest, + 10% of the straight-time rate for every hour worked on a night; on new work that's 15 to 20% of the rate short an hour, so for a run of new-work shifts untick Night and use Enter my own rate with your shift rate.
- The per-hour amounts are counted on hours worked, and apprentices pay the full amounts (the package says apprentices' fringes follow their percentage except welfare, training, PAC and benevolent, but doesn't say how the deductions do).
- Per diem isn't published, so none is added.
Enter your own hours in the Pipefitter 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 9 journeyman make in 2026?
$62.62 an hour under the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union No. 9 (Central New Jersey), Commercial Division economic package July 1 2026 to June 30 2027, from July 1, 2026.
When is the next Local 9 raise?
No later step is published in the data for the Commercial Division agreement. Rates usually change once a year; check the schedule before you count on a raise.
What do Local 9 apprentices make?
Apprentice, 5th year $46.97 (75%), Apprentice, 4th year $40.70 (65%), Apprentice, 3rd year $34.44 (55%), Apprentice, 2nd year $28.18 (45%) and Apprentice, 1st year $21.92 (35%) an hour from July 1, 2026.
Does Local 9 pay a per diem?
Local 9 doesn't publish a per diem.
How is Local 9 overtime paid?
The agreement itself isn't public: the wages, shift differentials and deductions are followed exactly, and the overtime and holiday rules below are marked Approximation.
Sources
The agreements and schedules these numbers were read from. Built October 15, 2026 from the Pipefitter app, version 0.1.0.
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