Paid Full-Time Federal Civilian Employment, all Areas statistics

[As of March 31. Excludes employees of Congress and Federal courts, maritime seamen of Dept. of Commerce, and small number for whom rates were not reported. See text, section 10, and summary below table for explanation of general schedule and wage system]


	Employees (1,000)					Employees (1,000)					Employees (1,000)					Employees (1,000)					Average Pay ($1000)					Average Pay ($1000)					Average Pay ($1000)
Compensation
Authority	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999


Total	1,971	1,968	1,972	1,952	1,959	2,004	2,010	1,992	2,014	2,016	2,697	2,665	2,776	2,709	2,681	2,620	2,564	2,506	2,490	2,483	19,447	21,115	22,839	24,074	25,211	26,139	26,369	27,429	28,211	29,618	31,174	33,340	39,129	(NA)	42,195	43,873	(NA)	47,569

General Schedule	1,402	1,395	1,400	1,393	1,407	1,450	1,462	1,458	1,480	1,494	1,506	1,499	1,537	1,520	1,479	1,417	1,381	1,290	1,258	1,234	19,910	21,833	22,974	24,178	25,282	26,186	26,274	27,421	28,114	29,655	31,239	33,288	39,070	40,568	42,139	43,239	44,824	46,744
Wage System	456	446	449	430	420	418	409	391	383	374	369	328	328	315	290	269	252	237	222	214	17,970	19,557	20,550	21,500	22,393	23,288	23,837	24,432	24,965	25,462	26,565	27,543	31,299	32,084	32,976	33,834	34,763	35,767
Postal pay system ¹	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	661	651	725	692	729	753	761	792	792	798	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	29,264	30,477	33,592	33,665	33,952	35,069	35,670	36,413
Other	113	127	123	129	132	136	139	143	151	148	161	187	186	182	183	181	170	214	218	237	24,825	26,777	29,627	31,544	33,453	34,413	34,814	36,859	37,393	39,764	41,149	43,926	51,996	53,839	56,298	58,782	60,678	62,519

NA Not available. 1 Source: Employees--U.S. Postal Service, Annual Report of the Postmaster General. Average pay--U.S. Postal Service, Comprehensive Statement of Postal Operations, annual

Source: Except as noted, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Pay Structure of the Federal Civil Service, annual.

http://www.opm.gov/feddata/html/paystr.htm The three statutory pay systems for Federal white-collar employees are those for the General Schedule, the Foreign Service, and certain employees in the Veterans Health Administration in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Salaries under these systems are established by subchapter I of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code.

The General Schedule pay system, as set forth in subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, covers, with specific exemptions, most "white-collar" positions in the executive branch and in certain agencies of the legislative branch of the Federal Government. The General Schedule consists of 15 grades, each broadly defined in law in terms of difficulty and responsibility of the work and the qualifications required for its performance. A salary range of 10 steps is provided for each grade. Within-grade advancement is scheduled after each 52 weeks of service in the first three steps in a grade, after 104 weeks in steps 4, 5, and 6, and after 156 weeks in steps 7, 8, and 9. To qualify for advancement to the next higher step an employee must demonstrate work at an acceptable level of competence. Employees demonstrating "high quality performance" may advance more rapidly through the rate range for their grades by being granted additional step increases, called "quality step increases." An employee may receive only one such increase, however, during any 52-week period.

Foreign Service pay plans and salary schedules for Officers (pay plan FO) and Personnel (FP) were established under the Foreign Service Act of 1980. Other Foreign Service pay plans which are linked to Federal pay schedules are Ambassadors (FA), linked to the Executive Schedule, and Senior Foreign Service (FE), linked to the Senior Executive Service. The Veterans Health Administration in the Department of Veterans Affairs provides unique pay plans for their physicians and dentists (VM), and podiatrists and optometrists (VP). Other Major Pay Systems

The Wage Systems category, presented in this report, covers employees in pay plans covered only by the Federal Wage System (FWS), the major pay system covering trade, craft, and labor occupations in the Federal Government. The pay for these employees is set in accordance with local prevailing rates under the statutory authority of subchapter IV, chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code. Employees in other blue-collar pay plans are placed in the Other Acts and Administratively Determined category.

The Executive Schedule was established by Congress to cover top officials in the executive branch. This schedule, which is codified in subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, has five levels, each with a single rate. In 1989, the Ethics Reform Act linked Executive Schedule increases to increases in the Employment Cost Index (ECI). Administratively Determined pay systems are those for which Congress has authorized heads of agencies to fix the compensation for the entire agency or for particular groups of positions without regard to the General Schedule. Some of the agencies administratively establish their own schedules of rates (the AD pay plan is an example of this); others use the General Schedule grade and step structure although they are not required by law to do so (pay plan GG is an example of this). Separate provisions are also made for stipend payments to certain student employees training in Government hospitals, clinics, or laboratories and for payments to member residents who work at Federal institutions, such as the Armed Forces Retirement Home. Nurses employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration also have a unique pay plan (VN) whose pay is locality based. The Senior Executive Service (SES) covers most managerial, supervisory, and policy positions in the executive branch which are classified above GS-15 and which do not require Senate confirmation. There are currently six salary levels in the SES. They are set by the President at the same time as the annual increases are authorized for the General Schedule.

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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