07/07/2026 Daily Report

**IBEW Traveler Snapshot — Tuesday, July 8, 2026** **LU-1105 Newark, OH** leads the board with 204 open calls at $44.67/hr base — Newkirk Electric is topping up at $50.67/hr ($6 over scale) with double-time OT on a 12-month New Albany energy center call. The Superior Group alone has 50+ JW slots across multiple long calls running 4-10s plus Saturdays. **LU-481 Indianapolis, IN** is stacking 180 open calls with the best money at Lebanon-area data centers — Meade Electric (17 JW) and Huston Electric are both paying $53.80/hr (10% over scale) at Meta and Google sites, with heavy schedules including Saturday shifts. **LU-494 Milwaukee, WI** hits the highest base rates on the board at $52.73/hr — Port Washington data center contractors (MJ, Gurtz, Cupertino, Uihlein) are all pulling $62.73/hr with 50-60 hrs/week. Note: WI license, drug test, and passport/ID docs required across the board. **LU-405 Cedar Rapids, IA** is running hot with 128 calls and $54.48/hr across multiple data center contractors — all OT paid at double time, with a second-shift option at QTS adding a 17.3% differential on top. Iowa license and OSHA 10 required. **LU-26 Washington, DC** carries the highest base scale at $62.00/hr, with New River paying $77/hr at the Radford VA RAAP site on 7-10s — Federal Real ID required. FIS Sterling VA data center has 31 JW calls plus $125/day per diem. **LU-294 Hibbing, MN** shows 149 calls with Hunt Electric running 109 JW slots on 6-10s plus double-time Saturdays and subsistence up to $175/day — MN license required. Overall market is strong across the board — data centers are driving the bulk of open calls from the Midwest to the Mid-