| Comment Number: | OL-10505362 |
| Received: | 3/10/2005 5:11:56 PM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
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Comments:
Pay banding is awful idea especially for trying to attract new government employees. I am a new federal employee and my annual salary increase per year within the new pay banding system would have been limited to 10% per year. So instead of getting my Oustanding Scholar increase of pay after one year of $7,623 when moving form GS-07 ($34,149) to GS-09 ($41,772), my annual salary would have only increased by $3,419. As an Outstanding Scholar the problem only gets worse as time moves along, instead of seeing approximately an $11,000 increase in salary when moving from GS-11 to GS-12 a new employee would only see approximately $5,000. The extra money that would have been paid to the new Outstanding Scholar employees would go into the Old School Boys fund to be distributed among veteran employees, further shafting newer more qualified government employees from seeing annual salary increases equal to their qualifications. Plus, giving federal managers the ability to distribute a pay pool of Bonus Funds made up mostly of pay banding money taken away from the increases in annual salary new employees would have seen is insane. If the government wants to keep around an aging workforce and make the federal government unattractive to college graduates, this is exactly the method to use!!!