---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1544"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1544"
heading: "Additional compensation to contractors of Federal agency"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1544"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — Financing Economic Development of Indians and Indian Organizations"
  - "Subchapter V — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §1544. Additional compensation to contractors of Federal agency


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a contractor of a Federal agency under any Act of Congress may be allowed an additional amount of compensation equal to 5 percent of the amount paid, or to be paid, to a subcontractor or supplier, in carrying out the contract if such subcontractor or supplier is an [Indian](/usc/25/1452.md?p=b) organization or [Indian](/usc/25/1452.md?p=b)-owned [economic enterprise](/usc/25/1452.md?p=e) as defined in this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–262, title V, § 504, added Pub. L. 100–442, § 7, Sept. 22, 1988, 102 Stat. 1765.)