Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/41/4301
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 20:46:45+00:00

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The term “compensation”, for a fiscal year, means the total amount of wages, salary, bonuses, and deferred compensation for the fiscal year, whether paid, earned, or otherwise accruing, as recorded in an employer’s cost accounting records for the fiscal year.
The term “covered contract” means a contract for an amount in excess of $500,000 that is entered into by an executive agency, except that the term does not include a fixed-price contract without cost incentives or any firm fixed-price contract for the purchase of commercial items.
The term “fiscal year” means a fiscal year established by a contractor for accounting purposes.
The term “senior executive”, with respect to a contractor, means the 5 most highly compensated employees in management positions at each home office and each segment of the contractor.
June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, § 306(m), as added Pub. L. 105–85, title VIII, § 808(b)(2), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1836; Pub. L. 105–261, title VIII, § 804(b), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2083.
June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, § 306(l)(1), as added Pub. L. 100–700, § 8(a)(1), Nov. 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 4634; Pub. L. 103–355, title II, § 2151, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3315.
Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 836(b)(17), (h), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1864, 1874, provided that, effective Jan. 1, 2020, subject to a savings provision, paragraph (2) of this section is amended by striking “commercial items” and inserting “commercial products or commercial services”. See 2018 Amendment note below.
2018—Par. (2). Pub. L. 115–232 substituted “commercial products or commercial services” for “commercial items”.

References: § 306
 § 808
 § 804
 § 306
 § 8
 § 2151
 § 836