06/28/2026 Daily Report

**IBEW Traveler Snapshot — Sunday, June 28, 2026** **LU-26 Washington DC** is the top-dollar local today — $62.00/hr base with 156 open calls, plus $125/day per diem on the FIS LLC Sterling VA data center gig (30 JW, starting 7/6). New River has a short 2-week call in Radford VA paying $77.00/hr, and Aarow Electric is looking for 19 JW at a Springfield VA military base for a 2-year run. **LU-1105 Newark OH** leads on volume with 214 open calls and multiple data center projects. Newkirk Electric is topping out at $50.67/hr on a Phase 2 call, and ESI at NAB/NAH starts 6-29 at $46.68/hr with double-time OT — Meta badging required. **LU-481 Indianapolis** is strong at 211 calls and $48.80/hr base. The standout: Industrial Electric's 2nd-shift Lilly LP1 call in Lebanon paying $58.70/hr with shift premium. Meade Electric's Meta Lebanon call runs 5-12s at $53.80/hr over scale. **LU-405 Cedar Rapids** has most of its calls paying $54.48/hr — $10 over the $44.48 base — with double-time OT across multiple QTS Data Center contractors. 112 calls total, OSHA 10/30 required on most. **LU-354 Salt Lake City** is worth a look if you can land the Wasatch or Winward calls — $225/day incentive on top of the $46.22 scale at QTS Eagle Mountain. Cupertino is offering $61.22/hr on the same campus. **LU-583 El Paso** has NM line calls paying $55/hr with all OT at double time — but you'll need a New Mexico JIW EE98J license to grab them. Overall market is flush with data center and infrastructure work across nearly every region right now.