Part 531 — Pay Under the General Schedule
Subpart B — Determining Rate of Basic Pay
- § 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.
- § 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.
- § 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.
- § 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.
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.
- § 531.409— 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.