Register of Wage Determinations Summary

This document is a Register of Wage Determinations 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 South Carolina counties including Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester.

The determination lists prevailing wage rates for over 200 occupational classifications spanning administrative support, automotive service, food preparation, furniture maintenance, general services, health occupations, information technology, instructional occupations, laundry and dry-cleaning, machine tool operations, materials handling, mechanics and maintenance, personal needs, plant and system operations, protective services, recreation, stevedoring, technical occupations, and transportation/mobile equipment operations. Wage rates range from $9.74 per hour (Waiter/Waitress) to $48.27 per hour (multiple flight-related positions). All listed occupations receive fringe benefits of $5.55 per hour (up to 40 hours weekly or $222.00 weekly/$962.00 monthly), vacation accrual of two to four weeks based on tenure, and a minimum of eleven paid holidays annually. Special provisions apply to certain classifications, including computer professionals exempt from wage determination requirements, air traffic controllers and weather observers receiving night/Sunday pay differentials of 10% and 25% respectively, and hazardous duty pay differentials of 4-8% for ordnance and explosives work. The document notes that Executive Order 13706 requires one hour of paid sick leave per 30 hours worked (up to 56 hours annually) for contracts awarded on or after January 1, 2017, and Executive Order 13658 establishes a minimum wage of $13.30 per hour for covered workers on certain contracts awarded between January 1, 2015 and January 29, 2022.