Reminder Issued on Premium Pay

The Office of Personnel Management has sent agencies a reminder about certain special rules regarding premium pay for civilian employees who perform emergency work in support of the national emergency declared by a presidential proclamation of September 14, 2001. In general, employees, including law enforcement officers, may receive certain types of premium pay for a biweekly pay period only to the extent that the sum of basic pay and premium pay for the pay period does not exceed the greater of the biweekly rate for: GS-15, step 10 (including any applicable locality rate or special salary rate); or level V of the Executive Schedule (currently $4,807.20). OPM reminded agencies they have authority to make exception to the biweekly premium pay limitation and that overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act does not count toward that limitation.