| Comment Number: | OL-10507125 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 9:02:06 AM |
| 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:
Sections 9901.311, 9901.321-323 – Setting and adjusting rate ranges – Under NSPS, employees will be assigned to broad career groups. DoD uses the 'Engineering and Scientific Career Group' as an example (Supplemental information, 'Table 1 – Sample Classification Structure,' page 7559). Within that career group, employees will be assigned to pay schedules, for example, 'Technical Support Pay Schedule.' Within the pay schedule will be bands, such as Entry or Full Performance. DoD will decide the ranges of basic pay for the pay bands, i.e., the minimum and maximum pay amounts in the band. In determining the rate ranges, DoD may consider mission requirements, labor market conditions, availability of funds, pay adjustments received by employees of other Federal agencies, and other factors. All these determinations can be made for individual agencies and organizations, and for individual pay bands. This means that even in one organization, one pay band may have a higher locality, or market supplement, rate, even though both bands have to live in the same local area, and pay the same amount for food, gas, water, etc. How can this be justified?