Special wage schedules for aircraft, electronic, and optical instrument overhaul and repair positions in Puerto Rico.

(a) The Department of Defense shall conduct special industry surveys and establish special wage schedules for wage employees in Puerto Rico whose primary duties involve the performance of work related to aircraft, electronic equipment, and optical instrument overhaul and repair. (b) Except as provided in this section, regular appropriated fund wage survey and wage-setting procedures are applicable. (c) Special survey specifications are as follows: (1) Surveys must, at a minimum, include the air transportation and electronics industries in the following North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes: 2022 NAICS codes 2022 NAICS industry titles 333310 Commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing. 3341 Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing. 33422 Radio and television broadcasting and wireless communications equipment manufacturing. 33429 Other communications equipment manufacturing. 3343 Audio and video equipment manufacturing. 334412 Bare printed circuit board manufacturing. 334413 Semiconductor and related device manufacturing. 334418 Printed circuit assembly (electronic assembly) manufacturing. 334419 Other electronic component manufacturing. 334511 Search, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical system and instrument manufacturing. 334515 Instrument manufacturing for measuring and testing electricity and electrical signals. 334610 Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media. 42342 Office equipment merchant wholesalers. 42343 Computer and computer peripheral equipment and software merchant wholesalers. 4811 Scheduled air transportation. 4812 Nonscheduled air transportation. 4879 Scenic and sightseeing transportation, other. 4881 Support activities for air transportation. 4921 Couriers and express delivery services. 56172 Janitorial services. 62191 Ambulance services. 81142 Reupholstery and furniture repair. (2) Surveys shall cover all establishments in the surveyed industries. (3) Surveys shall, as a minimum, include all the following jobs: Job titles Job grades Aircraft Cleaner 3 Fleet Service Worker 5 Aircraft Mechanic 10 Industrial Electronic Controls Repairer 10 Aircraft Instrument Mechanic 11 Electronic Test Equipment Repairer 11 Electronics Mechanic 11 Electronic Computer Mechanic 11 Television Station Mechanic 11 (d) The data collected in a special wage survey shall be considered adequate if there are as many weighted matches used in computing the nonsupervisory payline as there are employees covered by the special wage rate schedules. (e) Each survey job used in computing the nonsupervisory payline must include a minimum of three unweighted matches. (f) Special schedules shall have three step rates with the payline fixed at step 2. Step 1 shall be set at 96 percent of the payline rate, and step 3 shall be set at 104 percent of the payline rate. (g) The waiting period for within-grade increases shall be 26 weeks between steps 1 and 2 and 78 weeks between steps 2 and 3. (h) Special wage schedules shall be effective on the same date as the regular wage schedules for the Puerto Rico wage area. [55 FR 46145, Nov. 1, 1990, as amended at 60 FR 62701, Dec. 7, 1995; 71 FR 35374, June 20, 2006; 73 FR 45853, Aug. 7, 2008; 78 FR 58154, Sept. 23, 2013; 84 FR 36814, July 30, 2019; 89 FR 4540, Jan. 24, 2024]