Which document is this? DD Form 1919, official title DD Form 1919, Federal Wage System - Wage Data Collection, July 2009. What does it do? It exists to Federal Wage System - Wage Data Collection. Everything on this page builds on those two facts.
Will you need a different form because of where you serve? No. DD forms are Department-wide instruments, and that scope is what separates them from service publications. One edition, all branches, defense agencies included.
Who decides this form exists? not stated owns it; not stated directs its use. If someone told you to file this, the authority traces back to those.
Is this the right edition? The current one is dated not stated, and the publisher carries it as not stated. Check that against whatever copy you already have before going further.
What the form asks for
- 1. Establishment name.
- 2. Wage area.
- 3. Date of contact (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 4. a. Establishment job title.
- 4. b. Union affliation.
- 4. c. Establishment grade.
- 5. Survey job title.
- 6. Area code.
- 7. Establishment code.
- 8. Job number.
- 9. Formal rate range? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 10. Job Rate Range: minimum.
- 10. Job Rate Range: maximum.
- 11. Number of established step rates.
- 12. Established step rates, line 1.
- 13. Job match (enter Y if yes, N if no).
- 14. Number of employees.
- 15. Straight time hourly rate.
- 16. Guaranteed minimum.
- 17. Incentive rate.
- 12. Established step rates, line 2.
- 13. Job match (enter Y if yes, N if no).
- 14. Number of employees.
- 15. Straight time hourly rate.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 1 pages with roughly 54 fields to complete.
Fillable or printable — which do you have? Click inside a box. If it accepts a cursor and typed text, the file is fillable and your entries save with it. If nothing happens, the pdf is flat, and the only way forward is printing it and writing on paper.
Is handwriting acceptable? Yes, but it is the weaker choice. Scanning flattens pen strokes and reproduction blurs them, while typed characters survive the whole chain intact. Print in capitals if you are working from a paper blank.
Can you skip around the form? Better not to. The layout runs identification, then content, then certification, and entries near the bottom frequently take their meaning from what sits above them.
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.
What if a specific field still puzzles you? Read the instructions printed on the form, then not stated. Which wins if they differ? The directive.
Who receives it? The office not stated designates, subject to whatever local instruction your organization adds. What do you keep? A copy, made before the form leaves your hands.
How do you find a form referenced inside this one? By its number alone. The DD sequence runs across the entire Department, so a number identifies exactly one document regardless of which service cited it.
Can you assume a matching number is the same form? No, and this is where downloads go wrong. Read the prefix. Army numbering and Department numbering are independent systems, so the digits alone tell you nothing about which document you need.
Why do editions change at all? Three reasons, mostly: the prescribing directive gets reissued, the information collected changes, or the required notice language is amended. Are you notified when it happens? No. Which is why confirming not stated at the moment you download is worth the few seconds.
Is any of this advice? No. This page distributes a published Defense form and explains its contents, which is a different thing from telling you whether your circumstances qualify or whether a reviewer will accept your copy. Direct questions of eligibility, applicability and procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1919?
- DD Form 1919, Federal Wage System - Wage Data Collection, 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?