Talk:General Schedule (US civil service pay scale)

message: The article General_schedule is much more expansive in terms of content than this article, however, General_schedule should be merged into this article as this article bears what should be the proper name of the article.Cvieg 17:30, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  dede 

message: I'll check periodically to see what people say about this.  Does having prior military service count toward a higher starting step on the GS pay scale?  (i.e having 5 years of military service in Intelligence....instead of starting out as a GS9 Step1 or GS10 Step1, you could start out as a GS9 Step4 or GS10 Step 4)
Not that I've ever noticed.  However, it can help qualify you for a position in lieu of or in addition to college.  (Ever read a Government job announcement?  According to many of them, a PhD is required to qualify for a GS-9 position!  I got a GS-10 with an AA and 11 years in the Army.)  The hiring authority is allowed to start you off at better than Step 1, but they have to justify it with my limited experience.  Dan 139.139.67.70 14:49, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not a forum. --Kraftlos (Talk)(Contrib) 09:40, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prior Military Service 

message: Pulled these references off the page, I was hoping whoever placed them here could use the proper citation templates and place them as footnotes.  The other references need to be cited properly as well, though the footnotes are already in place.
*The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) guide on step increases.
*The General Schedule for calendar year 2008 (including locality pay charts) is available here.
*Department of Defense (DoD) Instruction 1000.1, Table 4.1 contains a table listing rank and grade equivalencies between U.S. military ranks and GS pay grades.
*Official version of DoD Instruction 1000.1, 30 January 1974; Administrative Reissuance Incorporating Change 2, 5 June 1991  This the source document for the above abridged table 4.1.
*Army Regulation 420-1, Army Facilities Management, 12 February 2008, Table 3-4 contains a table listing rank and grade equivalencies between U.S. military ranks and GS pay grades.
*U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps/GS grade conversion contains the grade equivalencies between US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officer ranks and federal civil servant GS grades.
Thanks --Kraftlos (Talk)(Contrib) 09:37, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: I added many tags to a section that seems to be almost entirely comprised of original research. Once the OR is removed, remove the tags. ask123 (talk) 19:11, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, the items you tagged don't strike me as original research, but rather the common experience of everyone I know who was hired into Federal Service and came up the ranks of the civil service.  It probably didn't take any research :-)  Perhaps some issue of "Government Executive" or another professional journal has something citable on the typical career path of a GS employee.  Amustard (talk) 02:02, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The language could be slightly altered to make it less firm, and thus less objectionable. [Maybe?] I don't see how many of the tags are 'original research,' although I agree with a few. Jed (talk) 18:31, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

text: I can see the OR, what is your NPOV objection?Richard Manion 17:23, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research & POV 

message: This article says that all NSPS employees are going back to the pay system they came from, but that isn't true; see http://www.cpms.osd.mil/nsps/faqs.html Jablomih (talk) 00:20, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  NSPS Conversion 

message: Never edited a Wiki page before and don't want to mess anything up.  But, saw an error I though someone might want to fix.  Putting in the talk page.
From:  http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-administration/fact-sheets/quality-step-increase/
"A QSI does not affect the timing of an employee’s next regular within-grade increase, unless the QSI places the employee in step 4 or step 7 of his or her grade. In these cases, the employee must complete the full waiting period for the new step, 104 weeks for steps 4-6 or 156 weeks for steps 7-9. However, the time an employee has already waited is not lost; it continues to count towards the waiting period for the next step increase. The QSI provides the employee the benefit of receiving an additional step increase at an earlier date than he or she originally would have without losing any time creditable towards his or her next WGI."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.141.104.10 (talk) 14:14, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  QSI date becoming the start date for next Within Grade Increase is incorrect. 

message: In the context of this article, SNCO, the S means staff NOT senior. GS-5,6,7 is not senior anything. See this link for an example: http://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/MessagesDisplay/tabid/13286/Article/162779/fy-2015-staff-noncommissioned-officer-snco-promotion-board-schedule-and-policies.aspx Nasa-verve (talk) 21:05, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  SNCO 

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message: Since the title of the article has both words in General Schedule in initial caps, which matches "the Senior Executive Service and the Executive Schedule," I'm changing the intro's bolded topic term to match. () If you think this is wrong, please explain why and clarify if this article should follow a different capitalization format than these related articles. 
Also, what the heck is WG in "the Federal Wage System (WG, for federal blue-collar civilian employees)"? Why is it bolded? I got to figure out more about what it is before removing it, but the bolding has got to go right away () because that term is NOT the topic!  It doesn't appear in the Federal Wage System article at all and searching for "wage WG" turned up nothing useful. I plan on using Wikipedia:WikiBlame to see when it was introduced () and if there was a change along the way (), but my real-life limitations might get in the way, so please feel free to follow up on it. Thanks! Geekdiva (talk) 01:49, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: WG stands for "wage grade".  This pay system is for certain blue-collar workers as opposed to the GS which is for white-collar workers. Quidam65 (talk) 23:56, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is "General Schedule" capitalized? What is "WG"? 

message: This is one of the most comprehensive changes in recent years.  Four new areas were added, and many of the others had significant changes to boundaries (some counties aren't listed as they are in the redefined CSAs while others had many new additions. Quidam65 (talk) 23:57, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pardon the long delay in adjusting 2024 numbers