New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle C - Division of the Budget › Part 147 - Performance Advances And Performance Awards For Managerial/confidential Employees › Section 147.4 - Performance advances

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
				Eligibility. Annual salaried employees, whose basic annual salary is below the
				job rate for their positions and whose performance has been rated higher than
				"Unsatisfactory" or its equivalent during the preceding evaluation period are
				eligible to receive performance advances. Employees whose positions are
				unallocated but are equated to salary grades (other than grade M-8) by the
				Director of the Budget shall be eligible for performance advances as if
				allocated to the equated grade.
(b)
				Method of payment. Performance advances shall become effective on the first day
				of the first payroll period beginning on or after July 1st, except that
				advances for education directors paid over 10 months shall become effective
				September 1st.
(c) Performance
				advance amounts. Each agency will be assigned a performance advance amount
				which will be the maximum aggregate increase to base salaries of eligible
				employees that may be granted as a result of performance advances. Performance
				advance amounts will be based on the actual number, salaries and grades of
				eligible employees in each agency and will be assigned by the Director of the
				Budget. Performance advance amounts may be assigned on a facility or payroll
				code basis as appropriate.
(d)
				Individual employee payments. An agency's performance advance amount will be
				distributed to eligible employees based upon the actual distribution of
				ratings. However, where the number of eligible employees is insufficient to
				enable a proportional distribution of payments, an appropriate rating
				distribution will be constructed, based on experience. Employees rated "Needs
				Improvement" or its equivalent will receive an amount equal to one sixth of
				their job range; employees rated "Effective," "Highly Effective" or their
				equivalent will receive one fourth of their job range; and employees rated
				"Outstanding" or its equivalent will receive up to one third of their job
				range, depending on the percentage of employees rated "Outstanding" or its
				equivalent. Employees rated "Unsatisfactory" or its equivalent will not receive
				advances. In any case, however, where a performance advance payment would
				result in a basic annual salary above the job rate for the employee's
				positions, only that portion of the advance which would bring the employee's
				salary up to the job rate shall be paid.
(e) Reconstructed promotion salaries.
				Employees who are promoted or appointed to a higher salary grade during the
				evaluation period who are otherwise eligible for an advance shall receive a
				partial advance prorated on the number of pay periods the employee has served
				in the higher grade as described in section
				147.3(b) of this
				Part. In addition, at the end of the evaluation period if the employee would
				have been eligible for an advance in the lower grade, the salary upon promotion
				shall be reconstructed by applying a prorated advance amount based on number of
				pay periods served in the lower grade as described in section
				147.3(b). However,
				an employee with 24 or more pay periods of creditable service in both grades
				during the evaluation period shall receive credits for a full advance; the
				advance in the higher grade shall be prorated as described in section
				147.3(b), while
				the balance shall be applied to reconstruction of the salary upon promotion.
				Any advance based on the higher grade shall be added to this reconstructed
				salary. In each case the performance advance amount used shall be 25 percent of
				the salary range.