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The record
- Built from
- CIJC Working Rule Agreement
- Wage date
- 20 July 2026
- Trades
- 26 calculators
- Bricklaying£35.68/m² labourGang of 2+1 · 16.7 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Blockwork£23.84/m² labourGang of 2+1 · 25 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Plastering£8.50/m² labourGang of 1 · 25 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Rendering£38.34/m² labourGang of 1+1 · 10 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Floor screed£2.83/m² labourGang of 2 · 150 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Concreting£7.92/m² labourGang of 1+2 · 70 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Tiling£17.71/m² labourGang of 1 · 12 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Roofing£32.80/m² labourGang of 2 · 3 operationsWork it out for your gang →
- Block paving£25.56/m² labourGang of 1+1 · 15 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Tarmac driveways£15.34/m² labourGang of 2+2 · 2 operationsWork it out for your gang →
- Resin driveways£16.61/m² labourGang of 1+1 · 2 operationsWork it out for your gang →
- Painting£14.17/m² labourGang of 1 · 15 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Stud walls£17.71/m² labourGang of 1 · 12 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Patios£31.95/m² labourGang of 1+1 · 12 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Repointing£26.57/m² labourGang of 1 · 8 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Plasterboarding£12.39/m² labourGang of 1 · 2 operationsWork it out for your gang →
- Decking£31.88/m² labourGang of 1 · 2 operationsWork it out for your gang →
- Fencing£25.56/m labourGang of 1+1 · 15 m a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Turfing£3.42/m² labourGang of 2 · 100 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Coving£7.08/m labourGang of 1 · 30 m a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Loft insulation£4.27/m² labourGang of 2 · 80 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- External wall insulation£38.34/m² labourGang of 1+1 · 10 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Soft strip£8.54/m² labourGang of 2 · 40 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Hand excavation£85.41/m³ labourGang of 2 · 4 m³ a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Shuttering£8.50/m labourGang of 1 · 25 m a dayWork it out for your gang →
- Mesh and rebar£2.56/m² labourGang of 1+1 · 150 m² a dayWork it out for your gang →
Benchmarks, not quotes: every figure is built from the CIJC Working Rule Agreement rates of 20 July 2026 - tradesperson £16.40/hr, labourer £13.18/hr, the agreement’s “craft rate” and “general operative” - with 35% on top for NI, holiday and pension, overheads and profit at 20%, and materials excluded. Open a trade and the whole sum is on the page.
Where these figures come from
The wages are the national minimums agreed between employers and unions, republished each July. The costs on top of them are the statutory ones every employer actually pays. The outputs - how much a gang gets through in a day - are blended from published estimating guidance, and they are the part worth arguing with, which is why every one is a control you can move.
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