Title 5, Part 531 — Pay Under the General Schedule

Purpose.

Coverage.

Definitions.

Entitlement to other rates of pay.

Converting pay upon change in location of employee's official worksite.

Order of processing simultaneous pay actions.

Applying annual pay adjustments.

Setting pay for a newly appointed employee.

Superior qualifications and special needs pay-setting authority.

Setting pay upon change in position without a change in grade.

Setting pay upon promotion.

Setting pay upon demotion.

Setting pay when an employee moves from a Department of Defense or Coast Guard nonappropriated fund instrumentality.

Special conversion rules for certain non-GS employees.

Maximum payable rate rule.

Rates of basic pay that may be used as the highest previous rate.

Rates of basic pay that may not be used as the highest previous rate.

Retaining and losing GM status.

Setting pay upon loss of GM status.

Promotion of a GM employee.

Adjusting a GM employee's rate at the time of an annual pay adjustment.

Computing locality rates and special rates for GM employees.

Within-grade increases for GM employees.

Maximum payable rate rule for GM employees.

Principal authorities.

Employee coverage.

Definitions.

Earning within-grade increase.

Waiting periods for within-grade increase.

Creditable service.

Equivalent increase determinations.

[Reserved]

Acceptable level of competence determinations.

Reconsideration of a negative determination.

Continuing evaluation after withholding a within-grade increase.

Effective date of a within-grade increase.

Reports and evaluation of within-grade increase authority.

Interim within-grade increase.

Applicability.

Definitions.

Purpose of quality step increases.

Level of performance required for quality step increase.

Restrictions on granting quality step increases.

Effective date of a quality step increase.

Agency responsibilities.

Evaluation of quality step increase authority.

Purpose.

Definitions.

Locality pay areas.

Determining an employee's locality rate.

Determining an employee's official worksite.

Maximum limits on locality rates.

Computing hourly, daily, weekly, and biweekly locality rates.

Relationship of locality rates to other pay rates.

Adjusting or terminating locality rates.

Treatment of locality rate as basic pay.

Miscellaneous provisions.