Summary: Register of Wage Determinations Under the Service Contract Act

This document is a wage determination register issued by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment Standards Administration, Wage and Hour Division, effective December 3, 2025 (Wage Determination No. 2015-4427, Revision 32). It establishes prevailing wage rates for service contract employees in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester Counties, South Carolina.

The wage determination lists approximately 200 occupation classifications across multiple service categories, including administrative and clerical occupations, automotive service, food preparation, furniture maintenance and repair, general services and support, health occupations, information and arts, information technology, instructional occupations, laundry and dry cleaning, machine tool operations, materials handling and packing, mechanics and maintenance, personal needs, plant and system operations, protective services, recreation, stevedoring, technical occupations, and transportation/mobile equipment operations. Hourly rates range from $9.74 (Waiter/Waitress) to $48.27 (various pilot and maintenance test positions). All listed occupations receive fringe benefits of $5.55 per hour (up to 40 hours weekly, $222.00 weekly, or $962.00 monthly), with an alternative rate of $5.09 per hour for Executive Order 13706 compliance. Additional benefits include two weeks paid vacation after one year of service, three weeks after eight years, and four weeks after fifteen years; a minimum of eleven paid holidays annually; and various differential payments for hazardous work (4-8 percent), night work, and Sunday work. The document includes conformance procedures for unlisted occupations requiring contractor classification requests and Department of Labor approval via Standard Form 1444.