Wage Determination Summary

This is a Service Contract Act wage determination (No. 2015-4281, Revision 35, effective December 3, 2025) issued by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division for federal service contracts in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. The determination covers specific Virginia counties (Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fauquier, Loudoun, Manassas, Manassas Park, Prince William, Stafford) and Maryland counties (Charles, Prince George's), plus the District of Columbia statewide. The wage determination establishes prevailing wage rates and fringe benefit requirements for approximately 200 occupation classifications across administrative support, automotive service, food preparation, furniture maintenance, general services, health occupations, information technology, instructional, laundry/dry cleaning, machine tool operation, materials handling, mechanics and maintenance, personal needs, plant operations, protective services, recreation, stevedoring, technical, and transportation occupations.

Fringe benefits required for all listed occupations include health and welfare payments of $5.55 per hour (or $222.00 weekly/$962.00 monthly), or $5.09 per hour under Executive Order 13706 ($203.60 weekly/$882.27 monthly); two to four weeks paid vacation depending on tenure; a minimum of eleven paid holidays annually; and hazard pay differentials of four to eight percent for certain positions working with explosives and incendiary materials. Special provisions apply to computer professionals (footnote 1), air traffic controllers and weather observers requiring night and Sunday pay differentials (footnote 2), and uniform allowance requirements limiting reimbursable uniform maintenance costs to $3.35 weekly when applicable. The wage determination requires contractors to submit conformance requests on SF-1444 forms for unlisted occupations prior to contract performance.