04/17/2026 Daily Report

**IBEW Dispatch Snapshot — Friday, April 17, 2026** DC Local 26 is booming with 378 calls, paying $59.50/hr. Data center work dominates with planned overtime and per diem — contractors like Dynalectric and FIS are desperate for hands. Salt Lake City (354) has 220 calls at $43.65/hr, mostly QTS data center work with National Tech needing 70+ comm techs. Grand Forks (1426) offers huge incentives — Parsons Electric paying $43.02/hr plus $100-$150/day at the Polaris Forge Data Center. Columbus (683) has 74 calls at the new Children's Hospital and airport, with some jobs paying 10% over scale. Milwaukee (494), Toledo (8), and Fresno (100) each have strong books with data center and industrial work. Best money? San Francisco ($92.50/hr) and San Jose ($91.03/hr), though work's slow and housing's brutal. Overall, data centers are driving the market nationwide with overtime and incentives common — if you can pass a drug test and have OSHA certs, you'll work.