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142 sections with “compensation”: the first 40

  • FAR 3.104-6 Ethics advisory opinions regarding prohibitions on a former official's acceptance of compensation from a contractor.
    …ther he or she is or would be precluded by 41 U.S.C. 2104 (see 3.104-3(d)) from accepting compensation from a particular contractor may request advice from the appropriate agency ethics official before accepting such compensation. (b) The …
  • FAR 28.305 Overseas workers' compensation and war-hazard insurance.
    … Defense Base Act (42 U.S.C. 1651 et seq.) extends the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 901) to various classes of employees working outside the United States, including those engaged in performing— (1) Public…
  • FAR 31.205-6 Compensation for personal services.
    (a) General. Compensation for personal services is allowable subject to the following general criteria and additional requirements contained in other parts of this cost principle: (1) Compensation for personal services must be for work per…
  • FAR 52.204-10 Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards.
    As prescribed in 4.1403(a), insert the following clause: Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards (JUN 2020) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause: Executive means officers, managing partners, or any other emp…
  • FAR 52.222-46 Evaluation of Compensation for Professional Employees.
    As prescribed in 22.1103, insert the following provision: Evaluation of Compensation for Professional Employees (FEB 1993) (a) Recompetition of service contracts may in some cases result in lowering the compensation (salaries and fringe b…
  • FAR 52.228-3 Workers' Compensation Insurance (Defense Base Act).
    As prescribed in 28.309(a), insert the following clause: Workers' Compensation Insurance (Defense Base Act) (JUL 2014) (a) The Contractor shall— (1) Before commencing performance under this contract, establish provisions to provide for t…
  • FAR 52.228-4 Workers' Compensation and War-Hazard Insurance Overseas.
    As prescribed in 28.309(b), insert the following clause: Workers' Compensation and War-Hazard Insurance Overseas (APR 1984) (a) This paragraph applies if the Contractor employs any person who, but for a waiver granted by the Secretary of …
  • DFARS 252.203-7005 Representation Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials.
    …s prescribed in 203.171-4(b), insert the following provision: Representation Relating to Compensation of Former DOD Officials (Sep 2022) (a) Definition. Covered DoD official is defined in the clause at 252.203-7000, Requirements Relating …
  • FAR 28.309 Contract clauses for workers' compensation insurance.
    (a) The contracting officer shall insert the clause at 52.228-3, Workers' Compensation Insurance (Defense Base Act), in solicitations and contracts when the Defense Base Act applies (see 28.305) and— (1) The contract will be a public-work …
  • DFARS 252.203-7000 Requirements Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials.
    As prescribed in 203.171-4(a), use the following clause: Requirements Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials (SEP 2011) (a) Definition. Covered DoD official, as used in this clause, means an individual that— (1) Leaves or left …
  • FAR 52.222-4 Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards—Overtime Compensation.
    …n 22.305, insert the following clause: Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards—Overtime Compensation (MAY 2018) (a) Overtime requirements. No Contractor or subcontractor employing laborers or mechanics (see Federal Acquisition Regulation…
  • DFARS 252.217-7004 Job orders and compensation.
    As prescribed in 217.7104(a), use the following clause: Job Orders and Compensation (MAY 2006) (a) The Contracting Officer shall solicit bids or proposals and make award of job orders. The issuance of a job order signed by the Contracting…
  • DFARS 228.305 Overseas workers' compensation and war-hazard insurance.
    (d) When submitting requests for waiver, follow the procedures at PGI 228.305(d).
  • DFARS 231.205-6 Compensation for personal services.
    (f)(1) In accordance with Section 8122 of Pub. L. 104-61, and similar sections in subsequent Defense appropriations acts, costs for bonuses or other payments in excess of the normal salary paid by the contractor to an employee, that are par…
  • FAR 22.1103 Policy, procedures, and solicitation provision.
    …cordingly, the contracting officer shall insert the provision at 52.222-46, Evaluation of Compensation for Professional Employees, in solicitations for negotiated contracts when the contract amount is expected to exceed $900,000 and service…
  • FAR 31.001 Definitions.
    …ate of future conditions affecting pension cost; e.g., mortality rate, employee turnover, compensation levels, earnings on pension plan assets, and changes in values of pension plan assets. Actuarial cost method means a technique which use…
  • FAR 52.203-12 Limitation on Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions.
    …ified in paragraph (b) of this clause and are permitted by other Federal law. Reasonable compensation means, with respect to a regularly employed officer or employee of any person, compensation that is consistent with the normal compensati…
  • FAR 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity.
    …ollowing clause: Equal Opportunity (SEP 2016) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Compensation means any payments made to, or on behalf of, an employee or offered to an applicant as remuneration for employment, including but not lim…
  • FAR 52.222-41 Service Contract Labor Standards.
    …f Labor or exempted by 41 U.S.C. 6702, as interpreted in subpart C of 29 CFR part 4. (c) Compensation. (1) Each service employee employed in the performance of this contract by the Contractor or any subcontractor shall be paid not less tha…
  • FAR 49.201 General.
    …he terminated portions of the contract, including a reasonable allowance for profit. Fair compensation is a matter of judgment and cannot be measured exactly. In a given case, various methods may be equally appropriate for arriving at fair …
  • FAR 52.232-12 Advance Payments.
    …amage to persons or property; and (iii) Adequate insurance under all applicable workers' compensation laws. (2) Until work under this contract has been completed and all advance payments made under the contract have been liquidated, the C…
  • DFARS 203.171-3 Policy.
    …“covered DoD official”) who, within 2 years after leaving DoD service, expects to receive compensation from a DoD contractor, shall, prior to accepting such compensation, request a written opinion from the appropriate DoD ethics counselor r…
  • DFARS 252.228-7003 Capture and Detention.
    …tes comprises geographically the 50 states and the District of Columbia. (4) War Hazards Compensation Act refers to the statute compiled in chapter 12 of title 42, U.S. Code (sections 1701-1717), as amended. (b) If pursuant to an agreemen…
  • FAR 3.104-1 Definitions.
    …l; and (2) Alternate designated agency ethics officials described in 5 CFR 2638.202(b). Compensation means wages, salaries, honoraria, commissions, professional fees, and any other form of compensation, provided directly or indirectly for…
  • FAR 3.104-3 Statutory and related prohibitions, restrictions, and requirements.
    … Executive Branch. See 3.104-2(b)(2). (d) Prohibition on former official's acceptance of compensation from a contractor (41 U.S.C. 2104). (1) A former official of a Federal agency may not accept compensation from a contractor that has been…
  • FAR 3.801 Definitions.
    …poses specified in paragraph 3.802(a) and are permitted by other Federal law. Reasonable compensation means, with respect to a regularly employed officer or employee of any person, compensation that is consistent with the normal compensati…
  • FAR 3.803 Exceptions.
    …nditions: (1) Agency and legislative liaison by own employees. (i) Payment of reasonable compensation made to an officer or employee of a person requesting or receiving a covered Federal action if the payment is for agency and legislative …
  • FAR 22.802 General.
    … employment because the employee or applicant inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. This prohibition against discrimination does not apply to instances in whi…
  • FAR 28.307-2 Liability.
    (a) Workers' compensation and employer's liability. Contractors are required to comply with applicable Federal and State workers' compensation and occupational disease statutes. If occupational diseases are not compensable under those statu…
  • FAR 28.308 Self-insurance.
    …overnment's interest. Agencies shall not approve a program of self-insurance for workers' compensation in a jurisdiction where workers' compensation does not completely cover the employer's liability to employees, unless the contractor— (1…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …rt regularly employed officers or employees of the offeror to whom payments of reasonable compensation were made. (f) Buy American Certificate. (Applies only if the clause at Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.225-1, Buy American—Supp…
  • FAR 52.216-7 Allowable Cost and Payment.
    …budgetary data. (B) General organizational information and limitation on allowability of compensation for certain contractor personnel. See 31.205-6(p). Additional salary reference information is available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-…
  • DFARS 237.7204 Format and clauses for educational service agreements.
    …rests to assist in the institution's teaching program, the Contractor may provide nominal compensation for part-time service. Base the compensation on the Contractor's practices and procedures for other students of similar accomplishment in…
  • DFARS 242.7301 General.
    …on of a contractor's— (i) Insurance programs; (ii) Pension plans; (iii) Other deferred compensation plans; and (iv) Related policies, procedures, practices, and costs; or (2) Concentrates on specific areas of the contractor's insurance…
  • FAR 4.1402 Procedures.
    …that contractors comply with the reporting requirements of 52.204-10, Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards. Agencies shall review contractor reports on a quarterly basis to ensure the information is consistent …
  • FAR 22.1003-4 Administrative limitations, variations, tolerances, and exemptions.
    …es independent of the manufacturer or contractor. (iii) The contractor will use the same compensation (wage and fringe benefits) plan for all service employees performing work under the contract as the contractor uses for these employees a…
  • FAR 22.1301 Definitions.
    …s— (1) A veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service, who is entitled to compensation (or who, but for the receipt of military retired pay, would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Vete…
  • FAR 31.205-19 Insurance and indemnification.
    …s, or employees are allowable only to the extent that the insurance represents additional compensation (see 31.205-6). (3) The cost of insurance to protect the contractor against the costs of correcting its own defects in materials and wor…
  • FAR 31.205-33 Professional and consultant service costs.
    …ent for the service (e.g., description of the service, estimate of time required, rate of compensation, termination provisions). (e) Retainer fees, to be allowable, must be supported by evidence that— (1) The services covered by the retai…
  • FAR 37.304 Contract clauses.
    …e contractor is to receive title to dismantled or demolished property and a net amount of compensation is due to the Government, except if the contracting officer determines that it would be advantageous to the Government for the contractor…

FAR (chapter 1)

DFARS (chapter 2, Defense)

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Rule changes in progress: FAR, DFARS. Terms: glossary.