Which document is this? DD Form 1918, official title DD Form 1918, Federal Wage System - Establishment Information, July 2009. What does it do? It exists to Federal Wage System - Establishment Information. Everything on this page builds on those two facts.
Does it apply to your branch? Yes. The DD prefix means Department of Defense, not one service, so the same blank serves the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and the Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction. There is no Army version and no Navy version to search for.
Who is behind it? not stated maintains the form, and not stated is the publication that requires it. Those two names answer most questions about why you are being asked to submit anything at all.
Which edition should you have? not stated, listed as not stated. A copy dated otherwise is a copy worth replacing.
What the form asks for
- 1. Establishment name and address. Include apartment or suite number and 9 digit zip code.
- 2. Wage area.
- 3. Date of contact: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 4. Telephone number, include area code and extension.
- 5. Name and title of persons interviewed.
- 6. Product or service of establishment. a. Major industry.
- 6. b. Specific products or services.
- 7. Area code.
- 8. Establishment code.
- 10. Establishment weight.
- 11. Total number of employees in establishment.
- 12. Total number of blue collar employees.
- 13. Overtime pay provisions: daily rate.
- Daily hours.
- 13. Weekly rate.
- 13. Weekly hours.
- 13. Sunday rate.
- 13. Holiday rate.
- 9. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code.
- 14. Number of hours in normal work week.
- 15. Month general wage adjustments are normally effective.
- 16. Contract obtained? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no, third box if rate sheet.
- 17. Non par code.
- 18. General wage adjustments. a. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day), line 1.
Download the form
What formats exist for this form? PDF. What is the scale of it? 1 pages and approximately 79 fields.
Do you pay for these? No. Free download, every format. What should you avoid? Filling the form inside a browser tab; the fields frequently do not save.
Where do you start? At the top. Identification first, the substance of the entry second, certification last. Why that order? Because fields lower on the page often depend on data you established in the header, and filling out of sequence produces contradictions.
What is the first thing to check? The edition date on the face of the form. Does it read not stated? If not, the copy is superseded, and a superseded DD form is a real problem: Department-level revisions replace the blank for every service at once, so an old file on a shared drive is stale everywhere, not just in your office.
Where do you look up an unclear entry? The form face first, not stated second. And when the two disagree? not stated controls.
What happens after you finish? It routes to the office specified in not stated or in local guidance. And your own record? Save a duplicate first; nobody regrets having one.
Do you need to know which branch issued a related form? No. DD numbering is Department-wide and unified, which means the number on its own is a complete address for the document.
Do DA and DD numbers ever correspond? Never. DA numbering is Army-specific, administered by an Army proponent, while DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. Identical digits in the two systems mean two unrelated documents, which is why the prefix matters more than the number.
How often does a form like this change? Unpredictably — revision follows directive changes, altered collection requirements and updated notice language. What is the practical defence? Verifying not stated every time you download rather than trusting a saved copy.
Will your completed form be accepted? That is not a question this page can answer. What you have here is a published Department of Defense document, a description of it and instructions for filling it out. Nothing on the page is legal advice, and nothing here determines what any office does with a submission. Where do the remaining questions go? To not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1918?
- DD Form 1918, Federal Wage System - Establishment Information, July 2009
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?