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Locality Raises to Continue

The DoD document also repeats the agency’s previously stated intent to continue granting general schedule employees locality pay raises, although the across-the-board GS raise, along with now largely automatic within-grade raises, got no such guarantee and the funds for those increases presumably would go into the pay-for-performance pool. That is a major point of difference between the pay-for-performance features envisioned at DoD and those recently applied government-wide to senior executives, in which execs are no longer guaranteed either across-the-board or locality pay but instead will have their salaries set within a range strictly by performance. Nor will the new system eliminate overtime pay, DoD said, but “some of the pay rules regarding overtime pay, compensatory time, Sunday pay, and other forms of premium pay may be modified.”

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