Pay for Performance at the Food Safety Inspection Service

I'm going to be writing about this more next week in the Pay & Benefits Watch column, but I wanted to highlight one element of the FSIS's new pay-for-performance plan. If you earn a low enough performance rating under the new system, they'll cut your base pay so you don't benefit from increases in locality pay. My sense is that this is unique among the pay-for-performance systems both in place and being tested. Is that right, folks? Let me know.