Wage Determination.pdf

This is a Register of Wage Determinations under the Service Contract Act issued by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment Standards Administration, Wage and Hour Division, dated December 3, 2025, with Wage Determination No. 2015-5229, Revision 28, covering Texas counties of El Paso and Hudspeth.

The document provides prevailing wage rates for service contract work across multiple occupational categories including administrative and clerical positions (ranging from $13.73 to $28.59 per hour), automotive service occupations ($12.76 to $22.19), food preparation and service ($11.30 to $15.27), furniture maintenance and repair ($10.98 to $19.77), general services and support ($12.44 to $20.61), health occupations ($13.27 to $53.00), information and arts ($12.85 to $37.78), information technology ($18.61 to $28.56), instructional occupations ($16.04 to $49.67), laundry and dry-cleaning ($10.52 to $13.75), machine tool operations ($20.62 to $26.66), materials handling and packing ($13.71 to $19.39), mechanics and maintenance ($15.51 to $41.90), personal needs occupations ($10.73 to $19.04), plant and system operations ($15.79 to $24.33), protective service ($13.14 to $34.84), recreation ($11.07 to $23.51), stevedoring and longshoremen ($23.78 to $27.89), technical occupations ($16.33 to $46.07), and transportation/mobile equipment ($11.91 to $35.43). All listed occupations receive fringe benefits of $5.55 per hour (up to 40 hours weekly), vacation accrual beginning at two weeks after one year of service, and a minimum of eleven paid holidays annually. Special pay differentials apply to hazardous work environments (4-8 percent), night and Sunday work for air traffic controllers and weather observers, and uniform allowance reimbursement at $3.35 per week where applicable. Computer employees and air traffic controllers are subject to specific footnoted provisions regarding exempt status and additional compensation requirements.