Description:
Understand the basics of FWS pay-setting policies and requirements. Learn to apply pay-setting rules and requirements to a variety of real-life situations seen during the FWS pay-setting cycle, including the application of new and revised wage schedules, new appointments, promotions, within-grade increases, and night differential.
Who Should Attend?
Federal personnel who set pay or give advice on setting pay.
Tuition:
$629.00
Credits:
0.6 CEU's
Class Type:
This course is currently being offered in the following training modalities:
- Online
- Virtual Instructor-Led - STAF9004A
- Class Length: This class is listed as a 1 day course.
- Virtual Instructor-Led - STAF9004A
- In-Person Classroom
- Pay Setting: Federal Wage System - STAF9004D
- Class Length: This class is listed as a 1 day course.
- For in-person training sessions, participants are required to download the course materials to a personal device (e.g., laptop or tablet) and bring their device to class for use during classroom instruction.
- Pay Setting: Federal Wage System - STAF9004D
- On-site
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand basic FWS pay-setting policies and requirements
- Apply pay-setting rules and requirements to a variety of real-life situations seen during the FWS pay-setting cycle
- Set pay for new and revised wage schedules, new appointments, promotions, within-grade increases, and night differential
Module 1: The Federal Wage System
- History of the Federal Wage System
- Pay Structure
- Pay-Setting directives for the Federal Wage System
- Pay computation rule
- Simultaneous actions
Module 2: New Appointments
- FWS Wage Schedules
- Responsibility for establishing wage schedules
- Application of new or revised wage schedules
- Setting Pay for a New Appointment
- Higher than the minimum step
- Minimum rates for hard-to-fill positions
Module 3: Highest Previous Rate; Promotions
- Highest Previous Rates
- Setting Pay Using Highest Previous Rate
- Promotion
- Setting pay on promotion
- Promotion when current and new positions are in different wage areas
- Temporary promotion vs detail
Module 4: Within-Grade Increases
- Within-Grade Increases
- Eligibility requirements
Module 5: Night Differential
- Night Differential
- Differential rates
- Meal breaks
- Split shifts
- Flexible work schedules
- Other circumstances in which night differential is used