WD 2015-5687 Rev 29.pdf

This is a Register of Wage Determinations under the Service Contract Act for Alaska, issued by the U.S. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration Wage and Hour Division. The document establishes prevailing wage rates applicable to federal service contracts in specified Alaska counties and regions including Aleutians East, Aleutians West, Bethel, Bristol Bay, Denali, Dillingham, Kenai Peninsula, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Lake and Peninsula, Matanuska-Susitna, Nome, North Slope, Southeast Fairbanks, and Yukon-Koyukuk.

The wage determination (WD 2015-5687, Revision 29, effective 5/14/2026) lists hourly rates for over 200 occupational classifications across administrative, automotive, food service, furniture maintenance, general services, health, information and arts, information technology, instructional, laundry and dry cleaning, machine tool operation, materials handling, mechanics and maintenance, heating and ventilation, protective services, recreation, stevedoring, technical, transportation, and miscellaneous occupational categories. Wage rates range from $12.55 per hour for Waiter/Waitress positions to $77.08 per hour for Nuclear Medicine Technologists. The document specifies mandatory fringe benefits including health and welfare ($5.55 per hour or $222 weekly for most occupations, with $5.09 per hour or $203.60 weekly for EO 13706 SCA-covered contracts), vacation (two weeks paid after one year of service), and twelve paid holidays annually. Computer programmers and systems analysts are subject to exemption criteria. Additional provisions address night pay and Sunday differentials for air traffic controllers and weather observers, hazardous duty pay differentials (8 percent for high hazard, 4 percent for low hazard), and uniform allowance requirements for covered employees.