News
Analysis: Politics of federal pay obscures the facts
More research is needed on total compensation, accounting for employee contributions and career patterns, to properly compare public and private remuneration.
News
Analysis: An open letter to Chairman Issa on federal pay
Why studies don't help us invent a merit-based, market-sensitive system that recognizes and rewards individual employee performance.
Oversight
Analysis: and the winner of the pay debate is . . .
Wednesday's House panel hearing on whether federal workers are underpaid or overpaid laid bare a possible route to reform of the GS system.
News
Analysis: Time for a fresh look at the federal pay system
President Obama's proposal for a five-year spending freeze and his vision of restructuring government present an opportunity to modernize the General Schedule.
Pay & Benefits
Analysis: Pay reform at the crossroads
The next two years are the ideal time to introduce more performance-based factors in the General Schedule system, drawing on 30 years of research and experience.
Pay & Benefits
Analysis: Remedies beyond the pay freeze
With agencies facing rising retirements and attrition, the two-year run-up to the next election is a good time to revamp the General Schedule.
Pay & Benefits
Analysis: More twists in the federal pay debate
Actual salary data for actual workers doing similar work have not been produced, leaving discussions victim to generalizations.
Pay & Benefits
Analysis: The great federal pay debate
It’s all about benchmarking salary on a job-for-job basis, says a leading federal compensation analyst.
Pay & Benefits
Why Your Pay Doesn't Stack Up
Work is organized differently nowadays, and pay practices have followed suit, at least in the private sector. Government should take note.
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