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Title 5Administrative PersonnelPart / Section
Chapter IOffice of Personnel Management1 – 1199
Subchapter BCivil Service Regulations110 – 990
Part 532Prevailing Rate Systems532.101 – 532.801
Subpart BPrevailing Rate Determinations532.201 – 532.289
§ 532.201Definitions.
§ 532.203Structure of regular wage schedules.
§ 532.205The use of Federal, State, and local minimum wage requirements in determining prevailing rates.
§ 532.207Time schedule for wage surveys.
§ 532.209Lead agency.
§ 532.211Criteria for appropriated fund wage areas.
§ 532.213Industries included in regular appropriated fund wage surveys.
§ 532.215Establishments included in regular appropriated fund surveys.
§ 532.217Appropriated fund survey jobs.
§ 532.219Criteria for establishing nonappropriated fund wage areas.
§ 532.221Industries included in regular nonappropriated fund surveys.
§ 532.223Establishments included in regular nonappropriated fund surveys.
§ 532.225Nonappropriated fund survey jobs.
§ 532.227Agency wage committee.
§ 532.229Local wage survey committee.
§ 532.231Responsibilities of participating organizations.
§ 532.233Preparation for full-scale wage surveys.
§ 532.235Conduct of full-scale wage survey.
§ 532.237Review by the local wage survey committee.
§ 532.239Review by the lead agency.
§ 532.241Analysis of usable wage survey data.
§ 532.243Consultation with the agency wage committee.
§ 532.245Selection of payline and issuance of wage schedules.
§ 532.247Wage change surveys.
§ 532.249Minimum rates for hard-to-fill positions.
§ 532.251Special rates.
§ 532.253Special rates or rate ranges for leader, supervisory, and production facilitating positions.
§ 532.254Special schedules.
§ 532.255Regular appropriated fund wage schedules in foreign areas.
§ 532.257Regular nonappropriated fund wage schedules in foreign areas.
§ 532.259Special appropriated fund wage schedules for U.S. insular areas.
§ 532.261Special wage schedules for leader and supervisory schedules for leader and supervisory wage employees in the Puerto Rico wage area.
§ 532.263Special wage schedules for production facilitating positions.
§ 532.265Special wage schedules for apprentices and shop trainees.
§ 532.267Special wage schedules for aircraft, electronic, and optical instrument overhaul and repair positions in Puerto Rico.
§ 532.269Special wage schedules for Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army navigation lock and dam employees.
§ 532.271Special wage schedules for National Park Service positions in overlap areas.
§ 532.273Special wage schedules for United States Information Agency Radio Antenna Rigger positions.
§ 532.277Special wage schedules for U.S. Navy positions in Bridgeport, California.
§ 532.281Special wage schedules for divers and tenders.
§ 532.283Special wage schedules for nonappropriated fund tipped employees classified as waiter/waitress.
§ 532.285Special wage schedules for supervisors of negotiated rate Bureau of Reclamation employees.
§ 532.287Special wage schedules for nonappropriated fund automotive mechanics.
§ 532.289Special wage schedules for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood control employees of the Vicksburg District in Mississippi.
Appendix A to Subpart B of Part 532
Nationwide Schedule of Appropriated Fund Regular Wage Surveys
Appendix B to Subpart B of Part 532
Nationwide Schedule of Nonappropriated Fund Regular Wage Surveys
Appendix C to Subpart B of Part 532
Appropriated Fund Wage and Survey Areas
Appendix D to Subpart B of Part 532
Nonappropriated Fund Wage and Survey Areas