Register of Wage Determinations Under the Service Contract Act

This document is a Register of Wage Determinations issued by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment Standards Administration Wage and Hour Division for service contracts in Texas Counties of El Paso and Hudspeth (Wage Determination No. 2015-5229, Revision 28, effective December 3, 2025).

The register establishes prevailing wage rates and fringe benefits for service contract employees across 99 occupational classifications organized by industry category, including administrative support, automotive service, food preparation, furniture maintenance and repair, general services, health occupations, information and arts, information technology, instructional occupations, laundry and dry cleaning, machine tool operation, materials handling and packing, mechanics and maintenance, personal needs, plant and system operations, protective services, recreation, stevedoring and longshoremen, technical occupations, and transportation/mobile equipment operations. Hourly rates range from $10.08 (School Crossing Guard) to $53.00 (Nuclear Medicine Technologist). All occupations receive health and welfare benefits of $5.55 per hour (up to 40 hours weekly), paid vacation accruing from two to four weeks depending on tenure, a minimum of eleven paid holidays annually, and uniform allowances where applicable. Special provisions apply to computer employees (who must meet exemption criteria), air traffic controllers and weather observers (with night differential and Sunday premium pay), hazardous duty positions (with 4 to 8 percent differentials), and unlisted occupations requiring conformance requests using Standard Form 1444. Executive Order 13706 establishes paid sick leave requirements effective January 1, 2017, and Executive Order 13658 establishes minimum wage requirements of $13.30 per hour for SCA-covered contracts.