Compliance, Employment Initiatives, Economic Development
21 Jan 2025
administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, freedom of information, labor market, wages, employment trends, government employees, federal wage system, payroll management, appropriated fund, wage areas
💼Changes to Federal Wage System Impacting Wage Areas Announced
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to change the regulatory criteria used to define Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area boundaries and make changes in certain wage areas. The purpose of this change, which will affect around ten percent of the FWS workforce, is to make the FWS wage area criteria more similar to the General Schedule (GS) locality pay area criteria. This change is based on a December 2023 majority recommendation of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee (FPRAC), the statutory national-level labor-management committee that advises OPM on the administration of the FWS.
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