Will locality pay solve recruitment and retention problems in the federal civil service?
By: Lewis, Gregory B.
Contributor(s): Durst, Samantha L.
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ArticlePublisher: 1995Description: p.371-80.Subject(s): Civil service - U.S.A
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Public Administration ReviewSummary: The authors examine the logic underlying locality pay by testing hypotheses about recruitment and retention on a 1 percent sample of federal personnel records for 1985 through 1989. They find evidence that interarea differences in private sector pay levels have a limited impact on federal turnover rates, entry levels, promotion chances, or grade levels. Therefore, the Federal Employee Pay Comparability Act of 1990 (FEPCA) replaces a uniform national salary schedule for white-collar workers with a system of locality pay, which will remunerate the same work more highly in San Francisco than in Santa Fe.
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Indian Institute of Public Administration | Volume no: 55, Issue no: 4 | Available | AR29286 |
The authors examine the logic underlying locality pay by testing hypotheses about recruitment and retention on a 1 percent sample of federal personnel records for 1985 through 1989. They find evidence that interarea differences in private sector pay levels have a limited impact on federal turnover rates, entry levels, promotion chances, or grade levels. Therefore, the Federal Employee Pay Comparability Act of 1990 (FEPCA) replaces a uniform national salary schedule for white-collar workers with a system of locality pay, which will remunerate the same work more highly in San Francisco than in Santa Fe.
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