Careers in PR/Law Enforcement

polarscribe
Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:24:10 +0000

Polo08816:

Another thing to keep in mind that there might be a push towards the “pay band” system.

I don’t think so. The biggest banding experiment, the “National Security Personnel System,” was repealed almost four years ago and all employees on it have been moved back into the GS scale. The only major agency with “pay band” right now is the TSA. There is no significant political support for major changes to the GS system for federal civilian employees.

The NSPS was widely viewed as unfair and was actually proven discriminatory in a number of studies - white employees consistently got higher performance ratings and more raises than minority employees, for example.

As long as the Democrats control the White House, I don’t see any weakening of the GS system being allowed. I don’t think the GS system is perfect, but the NSPS experience showed that “pay for performance” as applied to government systems has significant, perhaps intractable problems.