Agencies have a chance to propose new special salary rates, but budget uncertainty can cause hesitation

Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 11:57 a.m.

b'The Office of Personnel Management is making preparations ahead of a pending pay raise for civilian federal employees in 2024.\\nAgencies have one month to submit any requests to OPM where they want to offer higher salaries for typically hard-to-fill federal positions.\\nEvery fall, OPM sets a deadline for agencies to submit special salary rate (SSR) requests to take effect the following year. If they choose to, agencies can recommend positions to receive an SSR outside of the likely, but not yet official, pay raise for most civilian federal employees on the General Schedule (GS).\\nOPM can then decide whether to authorize those special salary rates for certain roles, grades or locations where agencies find it particularly difficult to hire.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'