SCA health and welfare rate 2026 ($5.92) — shortfall check

Enter the hours you paid and the fringe you credited. It returns the Health & Welfare you owe under the wage determination your contract actually carries, the hours the 40/week and 2,080/year caps strip out, and the back-wage gap per employee and across the determination.

Back-wage exposure across the determination	—	$
Shortfall per employee	—	$
H&W required	—	$
H&W credited	—	$
H&W-eligible hours	—	hrs
Paid hours the rule excludes	—	hrs
Rate applied	—	$/hr

H&W rate on your wage determination Determination type Hours worked in the review period, per employee hrs Paid leave hours: holiday, vacation and sick hrs Paid hours above 40 in a week, from the weekly payroll detail hrs H&W you credit per eligible hour: plan cost plus cash in lieu $/hr Employees on this wage determination people

Rate picked by your WD date, not today's date
The 10 August 2026 increase to $5.92 binds only when your wage determination is reissued at award, modification, option or extension, so all six current and prior rates are here and you pick the one your contract carries.

Paid hours, not only hours worked
On a fixed-rate (odd-numbered) determination H&W is owed on all hours paid up to 40 a week and 2,080 a year, so holiday, vacation and sick hours count; on an average-cost (even-numbered) determination only hours worked count and no cap applies.

The 40/week and 2,080/year caps, both directions
Shows the hours the caps strip out of the base, so underpayment and overpayment surface in the same run instead of one of them surfacing in an audit.

Exposure across the whole wage determination
Multiplies the per-employee gap by the headcount on the same determination, which is the figure a Wage and Hour investigator arrives at rather than the per-hour cents.

Export the run to the audit file (full version)
Saves every input and every output as a .csv, so the figure you handed the contracting officer is dated and reproducible months later.

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