{"data":{"id":"us/5-cfr-532.285","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"5 CFR 532.285","heading":"Special wage schedules for supervisors of negotiated rate Bureau of Reclamation employees.","body":"(a) The Department of the Interior shall establish and issue special wage schedules for wage supervisors of negotiated rate wage employees in the Bureau of Reclamation. These schedules shall be based on annual special wage surveys conducted by the Bureau of Reclamation in each special wage area. Survey jobs representing Bureau of Reclamation positions at up to four levels will be matched to private industry jobs in each special wage area. Special schedule rates for each position will be based on prevailing rates for that particular job in private industry.\n(b) Each supervisory job shall be described at one of four levels corresponding to the four supervisory situations described in Factor I and four levels of Subfactor IIIA of the FWS Job Grading Standard for Supervisors. They shall be titled in accordance with regular FWS practices, with the added designation of level I, II, III, or IV. The special survey and wage schedule for a given special wage area includes only those occupations and levels having employees in that area. For each position on the special schedule, there shall be three step rates. Step 2 is the prevailing rate as determined by the survey; step 1 is 96 percent of the prevailing rate; and step 3 is 104 percent of the prevailing rate.\n(c) For each special wage area, the Bureau of Reclamation shall designate and appoint a special wage survey committee, including a chairperson and two other members (at least one of whom shall be a supervisor paid from the special wage schedule), and one or more two-person data collection teams (each of which shall include at least one supervisor paid from the special wage schedule). The local wage survey committee shall determine the prevailing rate for each survey job as a weighted average. Survey specifications are as follows for all surveys:\n(1) Based on Bureau of Reclamation activities and types of supervisory positions in the special wage area, the Bureau of Reclamation must survey private industry companies, with no minimum employment size requirement for establishments, in the following North American Industry Classification System code subsectors:\n2022 NAICS codes 2022 NAICS industry titles\n211 Oil and gas extraction.\n212 Mining (except oil and gas).\n213 Support activities for mining.\n221 Utilities.\n333 Machinery manufacturing.\n334 Computer and electronic product manufacturing.\n335 Electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturing.\n484 Truck transportation.\n492 Couriers and messengers.\n493 Warehousing and storage.\n516 Broadcasting and content providers.\n517 Telecommunications.\n562 Waste management and remediation services.\n811 Repair and maintenance.\n(2) Each local wage survey committee shall compile lists of all companies in the survey area known to have potential job matches. For the first survey, all companies on the list will be surveyed. Subsequently, companies shall be removed from the survey list if they prove not to have job matches, and new companies will be added if they are expected to have job matches. Survey data will be shared with other local wage survey committees when the data from any one company is applicable to more than one special wage area.\n(3) For each area, survey job descriptions shall be tailored to correspond to the position of each covered supervisor in that area. They will be described at one of four levels (I, II, III, or IV) corresponding to the definitions of the four supervisory situations described in Factor I and four levels of Subfactor IIIA of the FWS Job Grading Standard for Supervisors. A description of the craft, trade, or labor work supervised will be included in each supervisory survey job description.\n(d) Special wage area boundaries shall be identical to the survey areas covered by the special wage surveys. The areas of application in which the special schedules will be paid are generally smaller than the survey areas, reflecting actual Bureau of Reclamation worksites and the often scattered location of surveyable private sector jobs. Special wage schedules shall be established in the following areas:\nThe Great Plains Region\nSpecial Wage Survey Area (Counties)\nMontana: All counties except Lincoln, Sanders,Lake, Flathead, Mineral, Missoula, Powell, Granite, and Ravalli\nWyoming: All counties except Lincoln, Teton, sublette, Uinta, and Sweetwater\nColorado: All counties except Moffat, Rio Blanco, Garfield, Mesa, Delta, Montrose, San Miguel, Ouray, Delores, San Juan, Montezuma, La Plata, and Archuleta\nNorth Dakota: All counties\nSouth Dakota: All counties\nSpecial Wage Area of Application (Counties)\nMontana: Broadwater, Jefferson,Lewis and Clark, Yellowstone, and Bighorn Counties\nWyoming: All counties except Lincoln, Teton, Sublette, Uinta, and Sweetwater\nColorado: Boulder, Chaffee, Clear Creek, Eagle, Fremont, Gilpin, Grand, Lake, Larimer, Park, Pitkin, Pueblo, and Summitt\nBeginning month of survey: August\nThe Mid-Pacific Region\nSpecial Wage Survey Area (Counties)\nCalifornia: Shasta, Sacramento, Butte, San Francisco, Merced, Stanislaus\nSpecial Wage Area of Application (Counties)\nCalifornia: Shasta, Sacramento, Fresno, Alameda, Tehoma, Tuolumne, Merced\nBeginning month of survey: February\nGreen Springs Power Field Station\nSpecial Wage Survey Area (Counties)\nOregon: Jackson\nSpecial Wage Area of Application (Counties)\nOregon: Jackson\nBeginning month of survey: April\nPacific NW. Region Drill Crew\nSpecial Wage Survey Area (Counties)\nMontana: Flathead, Missoula\nOregon: Lane, Bend, Medford, Umatilla, Multnomah\nUtah: Salt Lake\nIdaho: Ada, Canyon, Adams\nWashington: Spokane, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan\nSpecial Wage Area of Application (Counties)\nOregon: Deschutes, Jackson, Umatilla\nMontana: Missoula\nIdaho: Ada\nWashington: Grant, Lincoln, Douglas, Okanogan, Yakima\nBeginning month of survey: April\nSnake River Area Office (Central Snake/Minidoka)\nSpecial Wage Survey Area (Counties)\nIdaho: Ada, Caribou, Bingham, Bannock\nSpecial Wage Area of Application (Counties)\nIdaho: Gem, Elmore, Bonneville, Minidoka, Boise, Valley, Power\nBeginning month of survey: April\nHungry Horse Project Office\nSpecial Wage Survey Area (Counties)\nMontana: Flathead, Missoula, Cascade, Sanders, Lake\nIdaho: Bonner\nWashington: Pend Oreille\nSpecial Wage Area of Application (Counties)\nMontana: Flathead\nBeginning month of survey: March\nGrand Coulee Power Office (Grand Coulee Project Office)\nSpecial Wage Survey Area (Counties)\nOregon: Multnomah\nWashington: Spokane, King\nSpecial Wage Area of Application (Counties)\nWashington: Grant, Douglas, Lincoln, Okanogan\nBeginning month of survey: April\nUpper Columbia Area Office (Yakima)\nSpecial Wage Survey Area (Counties)\nWashington: King, Yakima\nOregon: Multnomah\nSpecial Wage Area of Application (Counties)\nWashington: Yakima\nOregon: Umatilla\nBeginning Month of Survey: September\nColorado River Storage Project Area\nSpecial Wage Survey Area (Counties)\nArizona: Apache, Coconino, Navajo\nColorado: Moffat, Montrose, Routt, Gunnison, Rio Blanco, Mesa, Garfield, Eagle, Delta, Pitkin, San Miguel, Delores, Montezuma, La Plata, San Juan, Ouray, Archuleta, Hindale, Mineral\nWyoming: Unita, Sweetwater, Carbon, Albany, Laramie, Goshen, Platte, Niobrara, Converse, Natrona, Fremont, Sublette, Lincoln\nUtah: Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Carbon, Daggett, Davis, Duchesne, Emery, Garfield, Grand, Iron, Juab, Kane, Millard, Morgan, Piute, Rich, Salt Lake, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Summit, Tooele, Uintah, Utah, Wasatch, Washington, Wayne, Weber\nSpecial Survey Area of Application (Counties)\nArizona: Coconino\nColorado: Montrose, Gunnison, Mesa\nWyoming: Lincoln\nUtah: Daggett\nBeginning month of survey: March\nElephant Butte Area\nSpecial Wage Survey Area (Counties)\nNew Mexico: Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Donña Ana, Otero, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt, Chaves, Lincoln, Sierra, Socorro, Catron, Cibola, Valencia, Bernalillo, Torrance, Guadalupe, De Baca, Curry, Quay\nTexas: El Paso, Hudspeth, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presido, Brewster, Pecos, Reeves, Loving, Ward, Winkler\nArizona: Apache, Greenlee, Graham, Cochise\nSpecial Wage Area of Application (Counties)\nNew Mexico: Sierra\nBeginning month of survey: June\nLower Colorado Dams Area\nSpecial Wage Survey Area (Counties)\nNevada: Clark\nCalifornia: Los Angeles\nArizona: Maricopa\nSpecial Wage Area of Application (Counties)\nNevada: Clark\nCalifornia: San Bernardino\nArizona: Mohave\nBeginning month of survey: August\nYuma Projects Area\nSpecial Wage Survey Area (Counties)\nCalifornia: San Diego\nArizona: Maricopa, Yuma\nNote:\nBureau of Reclamation may add other survey counties for dredge operator supervisors because of the uniqueness of the occupation and difficulty in finding job matches.)\nSpecial Wage Area of Application (Counties)\nArizona: Yuma\nBeginning month of survey: November (Maintenance) and April (Dredging)\nBureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, Area\nSpecial Wage Survey Area (Counties)\nColorado: Jefferson, Denver, Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Larimer\nSpecial Wage Survey Area of Application (Counties)\nColorado: Jefferson\nBeginning month of survey: February\n(e) These special schedule positions will be identified by pay plan code XE, grade 00, and the Federal Wage System occupational codes will be used. New employees shall be hired at step 1 of the position. With satisfactory or higher performance, advancement between steps shall be automatic after 52 weeks of service.\n(f)(1) In the first year of implementation, all special areas will have full-scale surveys.\n(2) Current employees shall be placed in step 2 of the new special schedule, or, if their current rate of pay exceeds the rate for step 2, they shall be placed in step 3. Pay retention shall apply to any employee whose rate of basic pay would otherwise be reduced as a result of placement in these new special wage schedules.\n(3) The waiting period for within-grade increases shall begin on the employee's first day under the new special schedule.","path":["Title 5—Administrative Personnel","CHAPTER I—OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT","SUBCHAPTER B—CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS","PART 532—PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS","Subpart B—Prevailing Rate Determinations"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-5.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:23:53Z","sha256":"965d11bf1f56b6002a55bbe6714edfe39187eca3cc04a942bb4b1fce53d2c4dd","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/5-cfr-532.283","next":"us/5-cfr-532.287"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}