Pay & Benefits

Analysis: Ten reasons to replace the General Schedule

Now’s the time to make tough decisions about pay -- while federal salaries are frozen.

Pay & Benefits

Analysis: Searching for honest performance ratings

The key to evaluating employees is managing expectations.

Management

Tough Times

Better managers are needed to pull agencies through rocky periods of downsizing and reform.

News

Analysis: Politics of federal pay obscures the facts

More research is needed on total compensation, accounting for employee contributions and career patterns, to properly compare public and private remuneration.

News

Analysis: An open letter to Chairman Issa on federal pay

Why studies don't help us invent a merit-based, market-sensitive system that recognizes and rewards individual employee performance.

Oversight

Analysis: and the winner of the pay debate is . . .

Wednesday's House panel hearing on whether federal workers are underpaid or overpaid laid bare a possible route to reform of the GS system.

News

Analysis: Time for a fresh look at the federal pay system

President Obama's proposal for a five-year spending freeze and his vision of restructuring government present an opportunity to modernize the General Schedule.

Pay & Benefits

Analysis: Pay reform at the crossroads

The next two years are the ideal time to introduce more performance-based factors in the General Schedule system, drawing on 30 years of research and experience.

Pay & Benefits

Analysis: Remedies beyond the pay freeze

With agencies facing rising retirements and attrition, the two-year run-up to the next election is a good time to revamp the General Schedule.

Pay & Benefits

Analysis: More twists in the federal pay debate

Actual salary data for actual workers doing similar work have not been produced, leaving discussions victim to generalizations.

Pay & Benefits

Analysis: The great federal pay debate

It’s all about benchmarking salary on a job-for-job basis, says a leading federal compensation analyst.

Magazine

Eyes on the Prize

Eyes on the Prize

Pay & Benefits

Why Your Pay Doesn't Stack Up

Work is organized differently nowadays, and pay practices have followed suit, at least in the private sector. Government should take note.