Wisconsin Carpenters Council wage bonds.
From $100.
A signatory carpentry contractor bound to the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters posts this bond to guarantee that the wages and fringe-benefit contributions it owes under its collective bargaining agreement actually reach the Council's benefit funds. Premiums cost 4% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
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How much does a Wisconsin Carpenters Council wage bond cost?
4% of the bond amount, from $100. Enter your amount in the calculator for the exact price.
Three steps. One sitting.
Signatory paperwork usually has a deadline attached, so this one is built to move: enter the amount, pay, and send the executed bond to the fund office. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your company details, the bond amount your agreement names, an effective date, and the credit consent that authorizes a soft pull. That is the application.
Issued
Most applications approve instantly. The credit consent authorizes a soft inquiry that never affects your score, and no hard inquiry ever runs on this bond.
Send it to the fund office
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to send to the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters Benefit Funds office in Eau Claire. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the wage & fringe benefit bond actually guarantees
When a carpentry contractor signs on as signatory to the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters — formed from a series of mergers of the former Wisconsin Carpenters union councils and affiliated with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America — it agrees under its collective bargaining agreement to pay negotiated wages and fringe-benefit contributions into the Council's multiemployer trust funds for every hour its signatory crews work. Those funds include the Council's pension, health, vacation, training, labor-management cooperation, and working-dues funds.
The bond form itself, issued to the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters Benefit Funds as obligee, conditions the obligation on the contractor complying with all terms of its agreement relating to payment of contributions to those funds. If the contractor defaults, the Funds furnish the surety a verified statement of the amounts owing, and the surety's aggregate liability is capped at the bond's penal sum.
This is a private, contractual requirement — not a Wisconsin statute. There is no single fixed penal sum; the amount is the figure your agreement or the Council's fund office names, generally scaled to your covered payroll and expected contribution volume. Enter that figure; we price the bond from a $100 minimum, and the application includes only a soft-pull credit consent.
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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
Issued. Most applications approve instantly. The credit consent authorizes a soft inquiry that never affects your score, and no hard inquiry ever runs on this bond.
What sets the price
The premium is 4% of the bond amount, $100 minimum: the amount the obligee sets moves the price, not your business profile.
One soft credit pull, never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
Where a check runs, it decides approval; the rate is the same for everyone approved.
One application, then a quick review.
These are the actual issuing fields. The credit consent authorizes a soft pull only — a soft inquiry that never affects your score.
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4% of the bond amount, $100 minimum, priced at the application. Soft pull only. Free until issued.