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A recruiter’s number is a starting point — not the going rate. RoadWage shows what your trade really earns in your state.
Any calculator does the math on your offer. This tells you whether it’s any good.
What your trade actually pays in your state this week — the median from live market data right now, not a federal number from 18 months ago.
Helper, apprentice, journeyman, foreman — separate rates, so a journeyman quotes the journeyman number, not an average dragged down by helpers.
How much work there is for your trade in that state right now — so you know whether you’ve got room to push or the market’s soft.
How often per diem is actually offered on jobs like this, and how much — so you know whether to ask for it.
The leverage laid out in plain trade English, built only from verified numbers, ready to take into the call.
Wages plus overtime plus per diem, on one honest weekly number — the figure a traveler actually lives on.
Federal survey data lags a year or more and never knows your grade or the per diem. RoadWage tracks current pay for your exact trade and state, and says so honestly when a market is too thin to call.
Going rate $59.00/hr + ~$150/day per diem — RoadWage’s live read for this market. Run your own numbers in your account.
The Negotiator is one piece. Paid brings the money tools built for the road — the ones that pay you back at tax time.
Take a photo of any receipt and it’s logged, totaled, and filed by category — no shoebox, no spreadsheet, ready to hand your preparer.
Automatic per-diem accrual against your tax home, day by day and state by state — the paperwork that backs a non-taxable per diem, done for you.
The RoadTrades app logs your drive miles by GPS — no logbook, no forgotten trips, no deductions left on the table.
The Pay-Rate Negotiator gives you the going rate — the live median pay for your trade in your state, calculated from current market data, not a federal survey that lags a year or more. It also breaks pay out by grade (helper, apprentice, journeyman, foreman) so you compare against your own level, and shows the per diem actually being offered.
Creating a RoadTrades account, building your resume, browsing jobs, and applying are all free, forever. The Pay-Rate Negotiator is included with any Paid profile ($24.99/mo), alongside receipt scanning, the per-diem tracker, automatic mileage, and the year-end tax pack — tools that pay for themselves on the road. The free blended-rate calculator is open to everyone with no account.
From RoadTrades’ proprietary RoadWage system, which tracks current pay across the live traveling-trades market and refreshes every week — the going rate, the pay range, per diem, and hiring demand. Every figure reflects what employers are paying right now in your market, not a national average from 18 months ago.
Then the tool tells you so instead of inventing a number. When a market is too thin to call a reliable going rate, it says the coverage is still building and falls back to national wage data for context. Better an honest “not enough data yet” than a made-up rate you’d quote against.
Yes. It shows the per diem actually being offered for jobs like yours and how often, and the blended weekly figure counts overtime at time-and-a-half past 40 hours — the honest number a traveler lives on, not just the base rate.
Free to join. The Pay-Rate Negotiator comes with any Paid profile — alongside receipt scanning, per-diem tracking, and automatic mileage.
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