Trench backfill, native
$8.95 / CY
Trench backfill, native costs about $8.95 per cubic yard installed. This is a published starting point and varies by region and job.
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What’s in this rate
This unit covers Trench backfill, native, measured per cubic yard. The crew returns native trench spoil in lifts and compacts it with a jumping-jack rammer. The rate covers the listed material, labor, and small tools. Select backfill, bedding, and testing stay on their own units.
Includes
- place native spoil in ~6–8 in lifts
- rammer compaction
- operator and laborer time and equipment listed in the build-up
- stated material waste and small tools
Excludes
- pipe bedding / haunch
- select or imported backfill material
- compaction testing
- surface restoration
- tax / freight beyond the stated delivered material prices
- after-hours, premium access, and contaminated / hazardous soil handling
- geotechnical testing, surveying / staking, and permits
Build-up
- Operator, 0.02 hr × $53.00
- $1.06
- Laborer, 0.08 hr × $41.00
- $3.28
- Material and small tools
- $0.04
- Equipment, hydraulic excavator ~20 t / ~1 CY bucket class, 0.02 hr per unit
- $1.90
- Equipment, jumping-jack rammer, 0.08 hr per unit
- $1.12
- Direct rate (labor, material, equipment, and tools)
- $7.40 / CY
- Overhead 10% of direct
- $0.74
- Fee 10% of (direct and overhead)
- $0.81
- Loaded rate
- $8.95 / CY
Worked extension: 100 CY of commercial trench backfill, native × $8.95 = $895.00 loaded for 100 CY. Quantity is a worked extension.
Related rates
- Geotextile, woven stabilization — $0.19 / SF
- Trench backfill, select granular — $47.44 / CY
- Foundation wall backfill, native — $11.95 / CY
- Foundation wall backfill, free-draining — $52.11 / CY
- Pipe bedding and haunch, stone — $69.90 / CY
- Trench excavation, 18 in wide x 3 ft deep — $3.30 / LF
- Trench excavation, 24 in wide x 4 ft deep — $5.11 / LF
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