E7-17221. Federal Salary Council

AGENCY:

Office of Personnel Management.

ACTION:

Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY:

The Federal Salary Council will meet at the time and location shown below. The Council is an advisory body composed of representatives of Federal employee organizations and experts in the fields of labor relations and pay policy. The Council makes recommendations to the President's Pay Agent (the Secretary of Labor and the Directors of the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management) about the locality pay program for General Schedule employees under section 5304 of title 5, United States Code. The Council's recommendations cover the establishment or modification of locality pay areas, the coverage of salary surveys, the process of comparing Federal and non-Federal rates of pay, and the level of comparability payments that should be paid.

The Council will review the results of pay comparisons and formulate its recommendations to the President's Pay Agent on pay comparison methods, locality pay rates, and locality pay area boundaries for 2009. The Council anticipates it will complete its work for this year at this meeting and has not scheduled any additional meetings for 2007. The public may submit written materials about the locality pay program to the Council at the address shown below. The meeting is open to the public.

DATES:

October 3, 2007, at 10 a.m.

Location: Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E Street, NW., Room 7310, Washington, DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Charles D. Grimes III, Deputy Associate Director for Performance and Pay Systems, Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E Street, NW., Room 7H31, Washington, DC 20415-8200. Phone [phone]; Fax [phone]; or e-mail at [e-mail].

For the President's pay agent:

Linda M. Springer,

Director.