Description:
Formerly titled: Federal Pay Setting
Acquire the knowledge necessary to set and administer pay for General Schedule (GS) employees. Learn how to implement and apply the complex array of pay administration rules, including those related to new appointments; reinstatement and reassignments; transfers and conversions; promotions and changes to lower grade; pay changes; recruitment, relocation, and retention incentives; superior qualifications; grade and pay retention and severance pay; and movement between pay systems.
Who Should Attend?
Federal personnel who set pay, or give advice on setting pay.
Tuition:
$1,349.00
Credits:
1.8 CEU's
Class Type:
This course is currently being offered in the following training modalities:
- Online
- Virtual Instructor-Led - STAF9002A
- Class Length: This class is listed as a 3 day course.
- Virtual Instructor-Led - STAF9002A
- On-site
Learning Outcomes:
- Explain GS pay-setting policies and requirements
- Apply pay-setting rules and requirements that encompass the federal pay-setting cycle
- Set pay for a wide variety of personnel actions
Day one of three
- The General Schedule
- Introduction
- Pay-setting directives
- Government pay systems
- General Schedule Pay Schedules
- Nationwide pay schedule
- Locality pay schedules
- Special salary rate schedules
- Primary Pay-Setting Rules
- Pay Setting When Hiring and Retaining Employees
- New Appointments
- Reinstatements
- Reemployment
- Restoration
- Transfers and Conversions
- Higher than the Minimum Step
- Superior qualification appointments
- Special need appointments
- Hiring and Retention Incentives
- Recruitment and relocation incentives
- Retention incentives
- Highest Previous Rate and GS Maximum Payable Rate
- Highest Previous Rate
- Requirements for Using HPR
- GS Maximum Payable Rate
- Computing the MPR
- Factors to Consider When Using GS Maximum Payable Rate
Day two of three
- Promotions and Changes to Lower Grades
- Promotions
- Promotion Pay-Setting Rules
- Standard promotion method
- Alternate promotion method
- Other Pay-Setting Rules Used in Promotion
- Promotion Pay-Setting Rules
- Changes to Lower Grades
- Voluntary changes to lower grade
- Involuntary changes to lower grade
- Pay Changes
- Within-Grade Increases
- Eligibility Requirements
- Determining completion dates
- Quality Step Increases
Day three of three
- Pay Adjustments
- Nationwide pay adjustments
- Locality pay adjustments
- Special salary rate supplements
- Movement Between Pay Systems
- The General Rule
- Understanding Other Pay Systems
- Movement from the FWS to GS
- Setting Pay
- Identifying the Action
- Movement from the GS to the FWS
- Identifying the Action
- Setting Pay
- Setting Pay on Movements between Other Pay Systems
- Grade and Pay Retention
- Grade Retention
- Grade Retention Entitlement
- Pay increases
- Termination of grade retention
- Grade Retention Entitlement
- Pay Retention
- Pay retention entitlement
- Pay increases while on pay retention
- Promotions while on pay retention
- Subsequent Changes and Further Entitlements
- Changes in Pay Systems and Grade and Pay Retention
- Eligibility requirements
- Termination of grade or pay retention
- Severance Pay
- Eligibility Requirements
- Computing Severance Pay
