Sunday 7 January 2024

Current Construction Workers' Labour Rates in Nigeria (January 2024)

Engr. Osaz', Nigeria's foremost construction blogger keeps you up-to-date with the current labour rates for the construction industry across Nigeria.

These rates were carefully drafted based on current market realities, deep research and wide consultations.  

We hope you know that it is not within our powers to determine what any worker earns or how companies pay their construction workers. Therefore these rates only serve as a guide. We are always updating them from time to time.

Generally, 1 day = 8 hours of work and an hour of break in a 9-hour stretch

Site Work normally resumes 8:00am and close 5:00pm 

Half Night Duties = 6:00pm - 11:00pm with 30 minutes break.
Full Night Duties = 8: 00 pm - 5:00 am with an hour break

Don't keep this information to yourself.
 Always refer colleagues and other persons to my blog.
 Thank you and Success on your project!

57 comments:

  1. Sir I really love the Job you do. Will be happier if I can b trained by you.. To hav more knowledge on the field. I stuied Qs.. And I want to ask if this rate are still up to date

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    1. Yes they are up-to-date.

      You can apply as an intern with us via engineerosaz@gmailcom or other available channels.

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  2. Fantastic work you're doing Engr Osaz. However, a bit of reservation on the concrete casting rate. Generally it goes with the volume being dealt with and also, the work section. Strategically, one can achieve concrete casting for 4000/m3 depending on your work flow and bargaining power.

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    1. Thanks for your sharing your knowledge COSTO INT!

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  3. Hello Sir engr. Osz' Thank you for the good work you are doing. I am very much glad to see you educating the world with the knowledge and experience you have.
    Pls, I also have one reservation on one of the rate definition i.e. Trench excavation, your rate is quoted as per sqm but I think it should either be meter or cubic meters (if it's meters there should be a conditional properties )

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    1. Okay. Thanks for your observation and sorry for the late response; engrossed in work.
      Let me clarify. Usually trenches do not reach up to 1-m in width so we adopt the length by depth in determining its lateral size par quantity. That's why we use square-metre for trench excavation but this is not the same for pit excavation.

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    2. Thanks for the explanation.
      Regards

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  4. Ingr. Osaz' in fact you have realy help me find my bearing in this country. I was finding it a bit difficult to get info when I arrived in this country but with your able good gusture I am now fully in control. You have rich me in the profession. I thank you and keep the good work as your reward is going to be countless.

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  5. informative post! I really like and appreciate your work, thank you for sharing such a useful facts and information about manual worker pay strategies, keep updating the blog, hear i prefer some more information about jobs for your career hr jobs in hyderabad .

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  6. Great blog post! I like your work and mostly when I visit your blog, I always found some great information about construction strategies, thank you for sharing useful facts about strategies for hundred employees, please keep updating the blog, and if you want to know about construction recruitment just visit our site for your better future plan.

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  7. Really great blog!!We hope you know that it is not within our powers to determine what any worker earns or how companies pay their construction workers.
    construction news online

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  8. Thumb up for you. Great job you're doing here. πŸ‘

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  9. What of labour rates per day for riggers

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  10. Hello Sir Happy Sunday and trust you are good? Please just to suggest if you can add a like or thumbs up batten so one can appreciate your work, comments and other inputs by both you and others.

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    1. Oh that's great. I will see if it's possible to do that

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  11. Engr. Osas, I really enjoy all of the materials on your website. As a young graduate of Quantity Surveying, your website has given me a well researched knowledge very exact than classroom guestimations and assumptions. Thank you so much sir. I will also appreciate if you can assist me with information on companies willing to employ a HND holder in QS.(OBASIOCHIESIMEON@GMAIL.COM)
    Thanks in anticipation.

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    1. Sorry for the late reply. I hope you have since found a place to work. I am grateful for the ecomiums

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  12. You have done some great work putting this together. It can't have been easy. Well done!!!

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  13. Nice job sir. please can you equally outline their various labour output per day on each of the workers. thanks

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    1. We are already working on this, on a different article. Thanks for the suggestion and compliments 😊

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  14. Nice job sir. Please what's the professional way of charging for the conduit piping, wiring and fittings installation of a building project. Thanks

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    1. See ENOBAKHARE INDEX of Construction Rates

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  15. Engr. Osaz' Thanks for your good job, You quoted carcass rate in cubic meter i think it should be in liner meter.

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    1. I will look at what you have said and fix any error appropriately. Thanks, Googoo 😊

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  16. Good job Engr Osaz.
    Pls those unit rates does it include both cost of materials and labour cost. For example if I'm calculating cost of tiling a room that is 9 meter square.what will be the cost considering the price of purchasing tiles,mortar,and labour.
    Please explain it more for me to understand. Thanks

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    1. Okay. See ENOBAKHARE INDEX of Construction Rates. A link to this article is on this page

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  17. Do you have any write up on labour output? For instance I need the area of formwork a gang(one carpenter and one labour) can do per day and also for other trades(concrete,ironbending/fixing etc)

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    1. We are already working on this in a separate article. We might merge it to this page later or simply provide a link to it

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  18. Tnks for d info! How much is d current price for a cubic metre of grade 25 concrete?

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  19. Thank you engr. Osaz. Your work is immensely beneficial and helpful. May you prosper to greater heights. However, can you kindly help us with rates for professionals in the industry, such as that of a project manager, site supervisor, civil engineer, surveyor, architect etcetera.

    Thank you.

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    1. Okay. Its an interesting perspective. We will look into that, perhaps in comparison to what obtains globally in subsequent articles. Thanks for compliments too 😊

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  20. Sir,I want to know and have the current labour rates in Nigeria,I mean today's Nigeria.

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    1. Yes. It's up there. Very very current. We are committed to updating it from time to time

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  21. Kudos,more wisdom and knowledge from Almighty God.

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  22. This is quite informative. Please keep up the wonderful job.

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  23. Thanks Engr. Osaz, u did a great work here n I can't just thank u well enough, u have really impacted in me.
    Pls may I ask y u calculate roofcarcass in m3, n if steel work is calculated in m, how do one calculate for contract labour rate for decking n also it's carpentry?

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    1. I appreciate you a lot for reaching out. Obvious errors have been corrected and the blog is now revamped. We now have workmanship rate, daily and contracts

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  24. You omitted carpentry formwork rate

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    1. Sorry, check it out now. It's added and revamped

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  25. Dear Engr. Osaz...absolutely, you are the boss! I for one I have been in the construction work field for long, but, I must confess that asides from bursting into your blog tonight, I CAN REALLY SAY THAT I HAVE BEEN IN THE DARKEN PART OF IT. Perhaps, maybe because I have been there as a labourer. But, honestly I expected to have advanced graceful from labourer to a more skillful jobs..., like truck driver, drilling, excavation, epoxy flooring, p.o.p finishing,etc but most especially manual cleaning could have been the best for me because, I also love to start a business as a janitor. Please, sir kindly assist my vision and I ll be indebted to you sir. Yours Michael - 08127276022

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    1. Thanks big Mike. Sorry for the late reply. Kudos on your career πŸ‘. Keep upgrading your skills and keep winning.

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  26. You will remain a stream that never run dry Engr Osaz. Please let me know the total cost per cubic meter of materials (cement,sand & aggregate) and labor for batching/mixing, laying in place to finish for mass concrete.
    COST OF DELIVERYING A MASS CONCRETE CUBIC METER. Thanks Boss Engr.

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    1. Thanks bossman😊. See ENOBAKHARE INDEX of Construction Rates on PropertyPrice Magazine

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  27. I really appreciate what I found today and I'm sure it will be of great help for me as an engineer both in the field and in the office. More grease to your elbow ENGR OSAZ

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  28. Good morning engr. I appreciate the good works you're doing.
    Pls I need the cost per cubic meter of floor area for storey building and bungalow for year 2016,2017,20018,2019,2020 and 2021.
    Pls treat as URGENT.

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    1. Sorry for the late reply πŸ₯Ί. I hope you have found the information you seek. Keep it up πŸ‘

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