Out of 1.2 Million Federal Employees, Only 737 Denied Raises for Poor Performance

The Weekly Standard ^ | 3/22/11 | Mark Hemingway

[Nachum]

Here's your eye-popping statistic of the day, courtesy Stephen Losey at Federal Times:

Does job performance play a factor in employee raises and step increases?

Unions defending the General Schedule say yes.

But the latest numbers say clearly no.

Only 737 out of more than 1.2 million GS employees — or one in every 1,698 — were denied a regularly scheduled step increase and accompanying raise in 2009 because of poor performance, according to data provided by the Office of Personnel Management at Federal Times' request.

That equates to a 0.06 percent denial rate, which is far lower than any estimates given of how many poor performers exist in the work force. OPM estimated in 1999 that poor performers make up approximately 3.7 percent of the federal work force. A 2000 survey by the Merit Systems Protection Board found that 14.3 percent of federal employees were judged by co-workers to be performing below reasonably expected levels.

[Publius6961]

I am maxed out at a step 10 and won’t be getting any more step increases unless I COMPETE for a HIGHER GRADE.

OMG!
Let me find my violin.

Most private workers are stuck at step 3, and private industry (your employers) does not create ten times the people it needs at step 4 until they actually need them even when it takes 15 years.

Any unhappy step three-ers are free to go find a higher paying job any time they want. They can't assume they deserve the next step simply because they thik so, or "that's the way it is..."

What's the problem?

[Neets]

You are an ass.