Performance Fund Also at Issue

The White House’s budget proposal, in calling for a 1.5 percent general raise, also advocated spending $500 million on performance-based pay, with some of it built into agency budgets and the remainder to be divvied up from the “human capital performance fund” that Congress created-but did not fund-last year. But prospects for that proposal are questionable, since Congress has not held any hearings this year on pay-for-performance and skepticism remains on Capitol Hill regarding the fairness and accuracy of performance measures.