COMDTINST 12550.11A governs Coast Guard payment of differentials for irregular or intermittent duty involving physical hardship or hazard.
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It addresses eligibility, entitlement, rate limits, compensable hours, leave, recording, termination, and requests to add hazardous duty pay rates. It also identifies duties that may qualify and explains how hazard differential pay relates to other payments.
Applies to: All Coast Guard unit commanders, commanding officers, officers-in-charge, deputy/assistant commandants, chief of headquarter directorates must comply with the policies contained.
General Schedule (GS) or equivalent employees may earn a hazard pay differential. All others are ineligible Reference (e).
Categories for which work is payable under a hazard pay differential include, but are not limited to: work in rough and remote terrain, traveling under hazardous conditions, snow or ice removal operations, water search and rescue operations, hazardous boarding or leaving of vessels, working at high altitudes, exposure to toxic chemical materials, or diving.
Regardless of the number of hazards encountered in a day, total hazard differential pay for any day may not exceed 25 percent of the employee's rate of basic pay for that day Reference (b).
Any amount of actual exposure during a calendar day entitles the employee to hazard pay for all compensable hours that day.
Hazard differential pay may be paid during hours of paid leave if hazardous duty is performed on a day which paid leave is taken.