Other changes in the rules include: When an employee’s official worksite is changed, the employee’s rate of basic pay must be converted to the new pay schedules in the new location based on the employee’s current position of record. This geographic conversion is processed after any simultaneous general pay adjustment, but before any other simultaneous pay action (e.g., a promotion). A reduction in an employee’s rate of basic pay resulting from geographic conversion is not a basis for entitlement to pay retention. A retained rate is established based on an employee’s payable (highest) rate of basic pay (including any locality payment or special rate supplement) and is compared to the employee’s highest applicable rate range. At the time of a schedule adjustment, a retained rate is increased by an amount equal to 50 percent of the increase in the maximum rate of the highest applicable rate range. Pay retention rules apply to an employee with a retained grade in the same manner as those rules apply to other employees.