Additional Guidance on New SES Pay System

The Office of Personnel Management has sent out several pieces of additional new guidance on carrying out the new pay system for senior executive service members that was authorized by a recent Defense Department budget measure. A memo and proposed Federal Register rules hold open the possibility of agencies providing SES members with a pay raise in the weeks or months ahead even though under the new system SESers no longer will get the same across-the-board and locality pay raises as general schedule employees but instead will have their salaries set according to performance-evaluation systems not yet in place. For excerpts, go to https://www.fedweek.com/HotFreeNews/default.asp in the hot free info section of our website.