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Part 531 — Pay Under the General Schedule

57 sections · Title 5: Administrative Personnel

§ 531.201Purpose.
§ 531.202Coverage.
§ 531.203Definitions.
§ 531.204Entitlement to other rates of pay.
§ 531.205Converting pay upon change in location of employee's official worksite.
§ 531.206Order of processing simultaneous pay actions.
§ 531.207Applying annual pay adjustments.
§ 531.211Setting pay for a newly appointed employee.
§ 531.212Superior qualifications and special needs pay-setting authority.
§ 531.213Setting pay upon change in position without a change in grade.
§ 531.214Setting pay upon promotion.
§ 531.215Setting pay upon demotion.
§ 531.216Setting pay when an employee moves from a Department of Defense or Coast Guard nonappropriated fund instrumentality.
§ 531.217Special conversion rules for certain non-GS employees.
§ 531.221Maximum payable rate rule.
§ 531.222Rates of basic pay that may be used as the highest previous rate.
§ 531.223Rates of basic pay that may not be used as the highest previous rate.
§ 531.241Retaining and losing GM status.
§ 531.242Setting pay upon loss of GM status.
§ 531.243Promotion of a GM employee.
§ 531.244Adjusting a GM employee's rate at the time of an annual pay adjustment.
§ 531.245Computing locality rates and special rates for GM employees.
§ 531.246Within-grade increases for GM employees.
§ 531.247Maximum payable rate rule for GM employees.
§ 531.401Principal authorities.
§ 531.402Employee coverage.
§ 531.403Definitions.
§ 531.404Earning within-grade increase.
§ 531.405Waiting periods for within-grade increase.
§ 531.406Creditable service.
§ 531.407Equivalent increase determinations.
§ 531.408§ 531.408 [Reserved]
§ 531.409Acceptable level of competence determinations.
§ 531.410Reconsideration of a negative determination.
§ 531.411Continuing evaluation after withholding a within-grade increase.
§ 531.412Effective date of a within-grade increase.
§ 531.413Reports and evaluation of within-grade increase authority.
§ 531.414Interim within-grade increase.
§ 531.501Applicability.
§ 531.502Definitions.
§ 531.503Purpose of quality step increases.
§ 531.504Level of performance required for quality step increase.
§ 531.505Restrictions on granting quality step increases.
§ 531.506Effective date of a quality step increase.
§ 531.507Agency responsibilities.
§ 531.508Evaluation of quality step increase authority.
§ 531.601Purpose.
§ 531.602Definitions.
§ 531.603Locality pay areas.
§ 531.604Determining an employee's locality rate.
§ 531.605Determining an employee's official worksite.
§ 531.606Maximum limits on locality rates.
§ 531.607Computing hourly, daily, weekly, and biweekly locality rates.
§ 531.608Relationship of locality rates to other pay rates.
§ 531.609Adjusting or terminating locality rates.
§ 531.610Treatment of locality rate as basic pay.
§ 531.611Miscellaneous provisions.