Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: November 8, 2024) |
Title 5 - Administrative Personnel |
Chapter I - Office of Personnel Management |
SubChapter B - Civil Service Regulations |
Part 531 - Pay Under the General Schedule |
Subpart A - XXX |
Subpart B - Determining Rate of Basic Pay |
Using a Highest Previous Rate Under the Maximum Payable Rate Rule |
§ 531.221 - Maximum payable rate rule. |
§ 531.222 - Rates of basic pay that may be used as the highest previous rate. |
§ 531.223 - Rates of basic pay that may not be used as the highest previous rate. |
Special Rules for GM Employees |
§ 531.241 - Retaining and losing GM status. |
§ 531.242 - Setting pay upon loss of GM status. |
§ 531.243 - Promotion of a GM employee. |
§ 531.244 - Adjusting a GM employee's rate at the time of an annual pay adjustment. |
§ 531.245 - Computing locality rates and special rates for GM employees. |
§ 531.246 - Within-grade increases for GM employees. |
§ 531.247 - Maximum payable rate rule for GM employees. |
General Provisions |
§ 531.201 - Purpose. |
§ 531.202 - Coverage. |
§ 531.203 - Definitions. |
§ 531.204 - Entitlement to other rates of pay. |
§ 531.205 - Converting pay upon change in location of employee's official worksite. |
§ 531.206 - Order of processing simultaneous pay actions. |
§ 531.207 - Applying annual pay adjustments. |
Setting Pay when Appointment or Position Changes |
§ 531.211 - Setting pay for a newly appointed employee. |
§ 531.212 - Superior qualifications and special needs pay-setting authority. |
§ 531.213 - Setting pay upon change in position without a change in grade. |
§ 531.214 - Setting pay upon promotion. |
§ 531.215 - Setting pay upon demotion. |
§ 531.216 - Setting pay when an employee moves from a Department of Defense or Coast Guard nonappropriated fund instrumentality. |
§ 531.217 - Special conversion rules for certain non-GS employees. |
Subpart C - XXX |
§ 531.301 - Definitions. |
§ 531.302 - Determining special law enforcement adjusted rates of pay. |
§ 531.303 - Computation of hourly, daily, weekly, and biweekly adjusted rates of pay. |
§ 531.304 - Administration of special law enforcement adjusted rates of pay. |
§ 531.305 - Reports. |
§ 531.306 - Effect of special pay adjustments for law enforcement officers on retention payments under FBI demonstration project. |
§ 531.307 - Continuation of a special law enforcement adjusted rate of pay. |
Subpart D - Within-Grade Increases |
§ 531.401 - Principal authorities. |
§ 531.402 - Employee coverage. |
§ 531.403 - Definitions. |
§ 531.404 - Earning within-grade increase. |
§ 531.405 - Waiting periods for within-grade increase. |
§ 531.406 - Creditable service. |
§ 531.407 - Equivalent increase determinations. |
§ 531.408 - [Reserved] |
§ 531.409 - Acceptable level of competence determinations. |
§ 531.410 - Reconsideration of a negative determination. |
§ 531.411 - Continuing evaluation after withholding a within-grade increase. |
§ 531.412 - Effective date of a within-grade increase. |
§ 531.413 - Reports and evaluation of within-grade increase authority. |
§ 531.414 - Interim within-grade increase. |
Subpart E - Quality Step Increases |
§ 531.501 - Applicability. |
§ 531.502 - Definitions. |
§ 531.503 - Purpose of quality step increases. |
§ 531.504 - Level of performance required for quality step increase. |
§ 531.505 - Restrictions on granting quality step increases. |
§ 531.506 - Effective date of a quality step increase. |
§ 531.507 - Agency responsibilities. |
§ 531.508 - Evaluation of quality step increase authority. |
Subpart F - Locality-Based Comparability Payments |
§ 531.601 - Purpose. |
§ 531.602 - Definitions. |
§ 531.603 - Locality pay areas. |
§ 531.604 - Determining an employee's locality rate. |
§ 531.605 - Determining an employee's official worksite. |
§ 531.606 - Maximum limits on locality rates. |
§ 531.607 - Computing hourly, daily, weekly, and biweekly locality rates. |
§ 531.608 - Relationship of locality rates to other pay rates. |
§ 531.609 - Adjusting or terminating locality rates. |
§ 531.610 - Treatment of locality rate as basic pay. |
§ 531.611 - Miscellaneous provisions. |
Subpart G - XXX |
§ 531.701 - Definitions. |
§ 531.702 - Computation of hourly, daily, weekly, and biweekly continued rates of pay. |
§ 531.703 - Administration of continued rates of pay. |
§ 531.704 - Effect of continued rates of pay on retention payments under FBI demonstration project. |
§ 531.705 - Reports. |