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DD Form 1919 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1919, Federal Wage System - Wage Data Collection, July 2009, used to Federal Wage System - Wage Data Collection. The DD prefix is the operative fact. It means one blank serves every military department — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction — plus the defense agencies and combatant commands. No branch variant exists.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 54 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
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.
Start by matching the printed date to not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared folders for years. Because the Department reissues to all services in one action, nobody is still accepting the previous layout by local custom.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.
Where a procedure cites both a service form and a DD form, the two are unconnected. Service numbering answers to a service proponent, DD numbering to not stated or another Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Matching numbers mean nothing whatever.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named 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?