Summary

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. The document establishes prevailing wage rates for service contract employees in Maryland counties including Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Carroll, Harford, Howard, and Queen Anne's (Wage Determination No. 2015-4265, Revision 32, effective December 3, 2025). The wage determination applies to federal service contracts and lists over 300 occupational classifications across multiple categories: administrative support and clerical occupations, automotive service occupations, food preparation and service occupations, furniture maintenance and repair, general services and support, health occupations, information and arts, information technology, instructional occupations, laundry and dry cleaning, machine tool operation and repair, materials handling and packing, mechanics and maintenance and repair, personal needs, plant and system operations, protective service, recreation, stevedoring, technical occupations, transportation/mobile equipment operations, and miscellaneous occupations.

Wage rates range from $15.00 per hour (Dishwasher, Food Service Worker) to $53.77 per hour (Air Crew Training Devices Instructor, Flight Instructor, Maintenance Test Pilot positions). All occupations listed receive fringe benefits of $5.55 per hour (up to 40 hours per week) for standard contracts or $5.09 per hour for contracts covered by Executive Order 13706, plus paid vacation (2-4 weeks depending on tenure), eleven paid holidays annually, and health and welfare benefits. Special provisions apply to computer employees, air traffic controllers and weather observers (night and Sunday pay differentials), hazardous material handlers (4-8 percent pay differential), and uniform allowance reimbursement ($3.35 per week or $0.67 per day). The document includes procedures for requesting conformance classification of unlisted occupations using Standard Form 1444.