Local Union No. 3 · Port Authority of NY & NJ

Contract archive, full-text search & wage history — 2002 to today

Wages vs. inflation vs. U.S. pay

The featured rate is the Journeyman Electrician — Grade C-94, top step. Pick the lines you want to compare.

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Cumulative growth since 2002

Everything starts at 100 in 2002. A line at 150 means it has grown 50% since then — so you can see at a glance whether our raises out-ran prices and the typical U.S. paycheck. The dashed line is our wage after inflation: what the raises are actually worth.

Cumulative index chart of union wage vs. inflation and U.S. wages since 2002.

Meme: ‘Reported Inflation’ vs ‘Actual Inflation’
Reported vs. actual inflation — the gap every paycheck knows.

Year-by-year: our raise vs. inflation vs. U.S. wage growth

Each year, the percentage our negotiated wage went up, next to U.S. inflation (CPI) and how much U.S. wages rose that year.

Yearly percentage chart of union raise vs. inflation and U.S. wage growth.

Read the contracts

The full text of each agreement, OCR’d from the scanned PDFs, with the original page one tap away. Use Search to jump straight to a clause.

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Wage schedule & raise history

The 2002 rates come straight from the MOA’s Exhibit B; every later year applies the negotiated general increases. Longevity and the 10-year step are shown separately below.

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