Pay Gap 2009

I'm blogging from the 2009 public meeting of the Federal Salary Council. And in the report of the Federal Salary Council Methodology Working Group is the average pay gap for 2009, incluing the average locality payment of 19.40 percent: 26.42 percent when incentive pay is included for General Schedule-12 administrative pay in the Rest of U.S. (which became the subject of some controversy last year when the Bureau of Labor Statistics found there had been a significant increase in the gap between those employees and their private-sector counterparts when incentive pay was factored in), or 22.13 percent when the incentive pay for those employees is factored out. The pay gap in 2008, including the incentive pay for the GS-12 administrative workers, was 25.17 percent. It's a reminder that even though the economy is struggling, private sector salaries that still exist aren't necessarily falling.