WD 2015-5229 Rev 28.pdf

This is a Register of Wage Determinations document issued by the U.S. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration Wage and Hour Division for service contracts in Texas Counties of El Paso and Hudspeth. The wage determination (No. 2015-5229, Revision 28, effective 12/03/2025) establishes prevailing wage rates for 200+ occupational classifications organized by occupational code categories including administrative and clerical, automotive service, food preparation and service, 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 service, recreation, stevedoring and longshoremen, and transportation/mobile equipment operations.

Wage rates range from $10.08 per hour for school crossing guards to $53.00 per hour for nuclear medicine technologists. All occupations listed receive fringe benefits including health and welfare at $5.55 per hour (up to 40 hours weekly, or $222.00 per week/$962.00 monthly), vacation accrual of two to four weeks depending on tenure, and a minimum of eleven paid holidays annually. Select occupations with footnotes receive additional provisions: computer professionals may be exempt from wage determination requirements if they meet specific compensation and duty thresholds; air traffic controllers and weather observers receive night and Sunday pay differentials; an eight percent hazard pay differential applies to positions involving explosives and ordnance; and a four percent differential applies to lower-hazard ordnance positions. Uniform allowances are set at $3.35 per week ($0.67 daily) for maintenance costs when applicable. The document also includes conformance procedures for unlisted occupational classifications requiring employer submission of SF-1444 forms to the Department of Labor for wage rate authorization.