ILA Longshoreman Pay Calculator & Shift Tracker

174 locals, Maine to Texas and up to Newfoundland

Local 1235 · Newark Local 1804-1 · Newark Local 1814 · New York Local 1 · New York checkers Local 1604 · Boston Local 1291 · Philadelphia Local 333 · Baltimore Local 1248 · Norfolk Local 846 · Newport News Local 1426 · Wilmington NC Local 1422 · Charleston Local 1414 · Savannah Local 1408 · Jacksonville Local 1416 · Miami Local 1410 · Mobile Local 3000 · New Orleans Local 24 · Houston Local 1351 · Houston Local 20 · Galveston Local 26 · Corpus Christi Local 1740 · San Juan Local 1317 · Cleveland Local 269 · Halifax Local 273 · Saint John Local 1657 · Montreal Local 1842 · Toronto Local 1654 · Hamilton Local 1953 · St. John's

Why it's built this way

The master contract is only part of your check.

The USMX-ILA Master Contract sets the wage scale. Your port's agreement sets the rest: when the shift starts, when overtime kicks in, the meal hour, the guarantee, which days are paid holidays. A pay app that only knows the master scale gets your week wrong. DockBook loads the rules for your port.

Read how the master contract and your local agreement split the work

Add Shift for a New York and New Jersey member: Container Crane Operator at a $54.00 base rate plus a $3.50 job differential, shift total $460.00

01 · Every shift

Your port's rules, cited.

Pick your shift and job and DockBook prices it the way your agreement reads: the master wage step for your qualified years, your port's start times, overtime windows, meal hours, guarantees, holidays, differentials and penalties. Guarantees show the article they come from, right on the form.

Longshoremen, clerks, checkers, foremen and maintenance and repair, where your local covers them. Logging shifts and seeing the pay is free.

02 · Paystubs

Know what the check should be before it lands.

Every payday, DockBook works out what your check should be from the shifts you logged that week. Type in the gross from your stub and it flags any week that comes up short, so you catch a missed guarantee or a wrong rate while it's still easy to fix.

Paystubs is part of DockBook Pro.

DockBook Paystubs for an ILA member: each weekly check listed, with the DockBook estimate of $1,812.00 for one week and a button to enter the gross from the paystub

03 · Fund hours

Count every hour that counts, all year.

Health coverage, royalty and pension all ride on hours in a contract year that closes September 30. DockBook keeps the count as you log, so you see a short year coming in July, not in December.

MILA Health

Your credited hours against the MILA tiers: Core at 700, Basic at 1,000, Premier at 1,300 and the Super Tier at 2,000, and how far you are from the next one.

How MILA hours work

Container Royalty

Credited hours toward this contract year's royalty qualification. Hours, not dollars: what each man gets is your fund's math.

How royalty qualification works

GAI Tracker (NYSA)

For New York and New Jersey: your income so far against the 1,900 hours at straight time ceiling in the NYSA-ILA agreement, plus your absentee debits.

How the NYSA GAI works

Money Purchase

The employer contribution building in the ILA money purchase plan, per hour worked.

Your port's own screens

Weekly guarantees, pension, vacation and holiday funds, welfare, setbacks and cancellations. Each port gets the screens its agreement calls for, and only those.

Leave and work history

A Leave Tracker for bereavement, jury duty, FMLA and leave of absence, and a place to enter prior years' hours so your qualified years are right.

MILA, Container Royalty and Money Purchase show for members under the USMX-ILA master funds. Trackers are estimates from what you log. Your plan office decides eligibility from what employers report.

04 · Free

Your agreement, in plain words.

The clauses you act on but no calculator can do for you: time limits, how to make a claim, what your plans cover, your rights on the job. Each one is written plainly with the article it comes from, so you can find it in the book. It's your contract, so it's free.

A Halifax Local 269 Crane Operator shift at Fairview Cove priced on the Halifax time-band pay scale, $398.32 plus 3.5% holiday pay in lieu, total $412.26 Canadian

05 · Eastern Canada

Halifax to Thunder Bay, in Canadian dollars.

Halifax, Saint John, Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, St. John's, Corner Brook, Thunder Bay and Oshawa bargain their own agreements, not the USMX scale. DockBook prices them on their own terms, band by band of the clock where the agreement pays that way, with your port's pension, welfare and leave screens.

Coverage

Every district, by port.

174 locals. When you sign up you pick your local, and DockBook loads your port's agreement and the screens that go with it.

New York and New Jersey

NYSA. Locals 1, 824, 920, 976, 1233, 1235, 1478-2, 1588, 1730, 1804-1, 1809, 1814, 1909, 1964 and more. Newark, New York, Staten Island, Bayonne, North Bergen, Ridgefield.

New England

Boston (BSA, Local 1604) plus Locals 799, 800, 805, 809 and the ports of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine.

Philadelphia and Delaware

PMTA. Locals 1242, 1291, 1566, 2064 in Philadelphia, 1694, 1883, 1884 in Wilmington DE.

Baltimore

STA. Locals 333, 953, 1429, 2066, plus the CONSOL, WWL VSA and WWIB single-employer agreements under Local 333.

Hampton Roads

HRSA. Locals 846, 862, 970, 1248, 1624, 1736, 1963, 1970. Norfolk and Newport News.

The Carolinas and Georgia

Wilmington NC and Morehead City (Locals 1426, 1766, 1807, 1838, 1847, 1968), Charleston (1422, 1422-A, 1771), Savannah and Brunswick (1414, 1423, 1475, 1863, 2046).

Florida

Jacksonville (1408, 1593), Tampa (1402, 1691), Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Pierce, Pensacola and Panama City.

Central Gulf

New Orleans (NOSA: 1497, 2036, 3000, 3033), Mobile (MSA: 1410, 1410-1, 1459, 1984, 1985), Gulfport and Pascagoula.

West Gulf

WGMA. 27 locals: Houston (24, 1351, 2022), Galveston (20, 1443, 1504-8, 1665), Beaumont, Port Arthur, Freeport, Corpus Christi, Brownsville, Lake Charles.

Great Lakes

21 locals: Cleveland, Toledo, Milwaukee, Superior, Portage, Ashtabula, Oswego, Ogdensburg and more. You enter your own rate.

Puerto Rico

San Juan (1740, 2071), Ponce (1903), Mayaguez (1904), Guanica (2012), on Puerto Rico's own agreement.

Eastern Canada

Halifax (269, 1341, 1825, 1843), Saint John (273), Montreal (1657), Toronto (1842), Hamilton (1654, 1879), Oshawa (1997), Thunder Bay (479, 1867), St. John's (1953), Corner Brook (2054), North Sydney, Canso Strait, Sheet Harbour, Dalhousie.

Straight answers

Where the agreement isn't public.

DockBook is only as good as the agreement behind it, and not every agreement is out there. Here is where that matters.

Great Lakes, and several Canadian single-employer agreements. These are bargained separately and the current agreements aren't public. You enter your own straight-time rate and DockBook does the rest from there.
Master contract ports without a public local agreement. The Mississippi Gulf and parts of New England and Florida are priced on the USMX master wage scale, but their local start times, meal hours and guarantees aren't loaded. Treat those numbers as close, not exact.
No board averages for ILA. The live average hours that BC and West Coast members see isn't built for ILA.
Paystubs are typed in. You enter the gross from your stub. There's no PDF import for ILA stubs.

If your local's agreement is one we don't have and you can share it, email support@dockbook.ca. That's how ports get added.

Free and Pro

Log and see your pay, free.

Free

Log shifts on the calendar
Pay for each shift, priced by your port
Your agreement, in plain words with citations
Travel pay
Vessel Intel
Reports and export

Pro

MILA Health, Container Royalty and Money Purchase
GAI Tracker and absentee debits (NYSA)
Your port's fund, pension and guarantee screens
Paystubs and the Pay Calculator
Leave Tracker and work history
In port: ships docked at your terminals and when they leave (US ports)

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Questions

Frequently asked

Does DockBook work for ILA locals?

Yes. Since version 3.0, DockBook covers 174 ILA locals: 155 in the United States from Maine to Texas, the Great Lakes and Puerto Rico, and 19 in Eastern Canada. Each shift is priced by your own port's agreement where that agreement is loaded.

What if my port's agreement isn't public?

For the Great Lakes and several Canadian single-employer agreements, you enter your own straight-time rate. Ports covered by the USMX-ILA Master Contract without a public local agreement, such as the Mississippi Gulf and parts of New England and Florida, are priced from the master contract wage scale, but local rules like start times and meal hours are not loaded for them.

Is DockBook free for ILA members?

Logging shifts, the calendar, pay estimates, travel pay, Vessel Intel and the Your agreement guide are free. DockBook Pro adds the MILA Health, Container Royalty and Money Purchase trackers, your port's fund and pension screens, the NYSA GAI tracker, Paystubs, the Pay Calculator, the Leave Tracker and In port.

How does DockBook track MILA hours?

The MILA Health tracker counts your logged hours on the October 1 to September 30 contract year against the MILA tiers: Core at 700 credited hours, Basic at 1,000, Premier at 1,300 and the Super Tier at 2,000. It is an estimate. MILA decides coverage from what employers report. More on MILA hours.

Is DockBook affiliated with the ILA or USMX?

No. DockBook is an independent app built by a working longshoreman. It is not affiliated with the ILA, USMX, any employer association or any benefit fund.

Also on the blog: ILA pay port to port · Container Royalty · NYSA GAI. On the other coasts: West Coast (PMA) and BC (BCMEA).

Priced by your
port's agreement.