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Prevailing Rate Systems; Change in Criteria for Defining Appropriated Fund Federal Wage System Wage Areas
The Personnel Management Office published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on October 11, 2024. Comments closed on December 10, 2024.
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What the agency says
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a 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 would 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. A summary of this proposed rule may be found in the docket for this rulemaking at www.regulations.gov.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-22933
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule
- Agency
- Personnel Management Office
- Published
- October 11, 2024
- Comments due
- December 10, 2024
- Dates
- Send comments on or before December 10, 2024.
- Docket
- Docket ID: OPM-2024-0016
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 3206-AO69
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 5 CFR 532
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 49
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