IBEW

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

Contract archive, full-text search & wage history — 2002 to 2024

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.

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.

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.

Read the contracts

The full text of each agreement (OCR’d from the signed PDFs). Use Search to jump straight to a page.

Wage schedule & raise history

The earliest dollar rates come straight from the MOA’s Exhibit B (effective June 4, 2002). Later years apply each negotiated raise.