1. (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.
2. (b) Except as provided in this section, regular appropriated fund wage survey and wage-setting procedures are applicable.

3. (c) Special survey specifications are as follows:

   1. (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. (2) Surveys shall cover all establishments in the surveyed industries.

   3. (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

4. (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.
5. (e) Each survey job used in computing the nonsupervisory payline must include a minimum of three unweighted matches.
6. (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.
7. (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.
8. (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]