Criteria for establishing appropriated fund wage areas.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 5

(a) Each wage area shall consist of one or more survey areas along with nonsurvey areas, if any. (1) (2) (b) Wage areas shall include wherever possible a recognized economic community such as a Metropolitan Statistical Area or a political unit such as a county. Two or more economic communities or political units, or both, may be combined to constitute a single wage area; however, except in unusual circumstances and as an exception to the criteria, an individually defined Metropolitan Statistical Area or county shall not be subdivided for the purpose of defining a wage area. (c) Except as provided in paragraph (a) of this section, wage areas shall be established when: (1) There is a minimum of 100 wage employees of one agency subject to the regular schedule and the agency involved indicates that its local installation has the capacity to do the survey; and (2) There is, within a reasonable commuting distance of the concentration of Federal employment; (i) A minimum of either 20 establishments within survey specifications having at least 50 employees each; or 10 establishments having at least 50 employees each, with a combined total of 1,500 employees; and (ii) The total private enterprise employment in the industries surveyed in the survey area is at least twice the Federal wage employment in the survey area. (d)(1) Adjacent economic communities or political units meeting the separate wage area criteria in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section may be combined through consider

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 5:§ 532.211