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What does GG pay scale mean?

What does GG pay scale mean?

GENERAL GOVERNMENT
GG (GENERAL GOVERNMENT) – A pay plan for grades similar to the General Schedule. The GG pay plan is used by many agencies who hire employees on a temporary or term basis.

What is a federal government pay band?

Pay Bands are a type of pay scale designed to provide more flexibility regarding how much employees are paid. The goal of Pay Banding is to give supervisors the ability to reward performance more. In the GS scale, pay is based education and experience.

What are the pay bands for federal employees?

These pay bands typically range from GS-1 to GS-5, GS-6 to GS-11, GS-12 to GS-13 and GS-14 to GS-15. Each pay band has a minimum and maximum pay. Within these bands, pay is based on employee performance. An employee at the top of one band will usually make for than someone at the bottom of the next higher pay band.

What are the pay bands for the GS?

Pay Banding is often implemented by compressing the GS’s 15 grades into four or five Pay Bands. These pay bands typically range from GS-1 to GS-5, GS-6 to GS-11, GS-12 to GS-13 and GS-14 to GS-15. Each pay band has a minimum and maximum pay. Within these bands, pay is based on employee performance.

What is the goal of pay banding in the workplace?

The goal of Pay Banding is to give supervisors the ability to reward performance more. In the GS scale, pay is based education and experience. Not until you reach the higher GS grades are the grades given competitively. In addition to basing salary on education, experience and position, Pay Bands base salary on job performance.

How are Bay bands and pay bands related?

Pay banding focuses on paying employees more based on performance metrics rather than time-in-service. Bay Bands were first used in 2009. Pay Bands are generally opposed by workers’ unions and are in very limited use today. Pay Bands used only by agencies that choose to use them.