By Brittany R. Ballenstedt bballenstedt@govexec.com
January 31, 2008
The new pay-for-performance system at the Defense Department is expected to set the pace for the rest of government for employee performance and improving leadership. And with recent hype surrounding this year's average Defense pay increase, workers governmentwide may no longer find that pace so unsettling.
The Pentagon announced last Thursday that 98 percent of the 110,000 employees under the National Security Personnel System received performance-based payouts averaging 7.6 percent. That's more than twice the percentage given to General Schedule employees, who had a 2.5 percent across-the-board pay increase and an additional 1 percent bump in locality pay.
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