Register of Wage Determinations Under the Service Contract Act

This document is a wage determination register issued by the U.S. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration Wage and Hour Division for service contracts in Texas Counties of Bell and Coryell (Wage Determination No. 2015-5237, Revision 30, effective 3/30/2026).

The register establishes prevailing wage rates and fringe benefits required for federal service contracts in the specified geographic area. It covers 11 major occupational categories encompassing 200+ job classifications: Administrative Support and Clerical Occupations (rates ranging $13.98-$28.76/hour); Automotive Service Occupations ($15.22-$23.58/hour); Food Preparation and Service Occupations ($12.00-$20.93/hour); Furniture Maintenance and Repair Occupations ($12.64-$20.69/hour); General Services and Support Occupations ($13.02-$22.49/hour); Health Occupations ($13.36-$57.77/hour); Information and Arts Occupations ($11.97-$35.55/hour); Information Technology Occupations ($19.44-$30.56/hour with footnoted exemptions for certain computer professionals); Instructional Occupations ($20.75-$47.25/hour); Laundry, Dry-Cleaning, and Pressing Occupations ($10.35-$14.34/hour); Materials Handling and Packing Occupations ($12.22-$21.42/hour); Mechanics and Maintenance Occupations ($16.15-$39.53/hour); Personal Needs Occupations ($11.42-$23.82/hour); Plant and System Operations Occupations ($16.09-$23.15/hour); Protective Service Occupations ($17.53-$35.33/hour); Recreation Occupations ($10.95-$23.95/hour); Stevedoring/Longshoremen Services ($21.24-$24.43/hour); Technical Occupations ($17.18-$46.07/hour); Transportation/Mobile Equipment Operation Occupations ($12.00-$35.43/hour); and Miscellaneous Occupations ($12.93-$33.10/hour).

All occupations receive standardized fringe benefits: Health & Welfare at $5.55/hour (or $222.00/week/$962.00/month), alternative Health & Welfare rate of $5.09/hour under Executive Order 13706 for paid sick leave compliance, vacation benefits of two weeks after one year and three weeks after ten years, and a minimum of eleven paid holidays annually. Special provisions include hazardous pay differentials (8% for high-hazard positions, 4% for low-hazard positions), night pay and Sunday pay premiums for air traffic controllers and weather observers, uniform allowances capped at $3.35/week, and computer professional exemptions under 29 U.S.C. Section 213(a). The determination requires conformance requests via Standard Form 1444 for unlisted job classifications, with contractor submission required within 30 days of unlisted employee work commencement and Department of Labor approval within 30 days thereafter.