§ 841.404 Demographic factors

5 CFR 841.404(a)(a) The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will consider the factors listed below in determining normal cost percentages. To the extent data are available for the factor by specific category of employees, such data will be used. To the extent category specific data are not available, the most relevant available data will be used.

5 CFR 841.404(a)(1)(1) Distributions of new entrants by age, sex, and service;

5 CFR 841.404(a)(2)(2) Withdrawal rates;

5 CFR 841.404(a)(3)(3) Merit salary increases;

5 CFR 841.404(a)(4)(4) Voluntary retirement rates;

5 CFR 841.404(a)(5)(5) Involuntary retirement rates;

5 CFR 841.404(a)(6)(6) Disability retirement rates;

5 CFR 841.404(a)(7)(7) Employee death rates;

5 CFR 841.404(a)(8)(8) Military service rates;

5 CFR 841.404(a)(9)(9) Family characteristics for employees;

5 CFR 841.404(a)(10)(10) Death rates for non-disability annuitants;

5 CFR 841.404(a)(11)(11) Death and recovery rates for disability annuitants;

5 CFR 841.404(a)(12)(12) Child survivor termination and death rates;

5 CFR 841.404(a)(13)(13) Family characteristics for annuitants; and

5 CFR 841.404(a)(14)(14) Administrative expenses.

5 CFR 841.404(b)(b) Generally, each rate, ratio, or fraction must be separately considered to determine the rates for males and their survivors and the rates for females and their survivors, except those rates for child survivors and merit salary increases.