Special Salary Rate Requests 2000

Special Salary Rate Requests

OPM Authority	The Office of Personnel Management (OPM)may establish higher rates of basic pay—special salary rates—for a group or category of General Schedule (GS) positions in one or more geographic areas to address existing or likely significant handicaps in recruiting or retaining well-qualified employees. OPM may establish special rates for nearly any category of employee—i.e., by series, specialty, grade-level, and/or geographic area.
Criteria	OPM may establish special salary rates to address staffing problems caused by— significantly higher non-Federal pay rates than those payable by the Federal Government within the area, location, or occupational group involved; the remoteness of the area or location involved; the undesirability of the working conditions or nature of the work involved; or any other circumstances OPM considers appropriate. Additional information on establishing and adjusting special salary rates may be obtained from OPM regulations at 5 CFR 530.303.
Agency Headquarters Approval	Special salary rate requests must include the information required by OPM's Worksheet for Special Salary Rate Requests, Form 1397. The requests must come to OPM through agency headquarters (list of agency headquarters contacts).
Resources	5 U.S.C 5305 and 5 CFR part 530, subpart C


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