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Part 531 — Pay Under the General Schedule
56 sections. Open any section to read it with its amendment history and the documents that cite it.
Subpart B—Determining Rate of Basic Pay
- § 531.201 Purpose.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.202 Coverage.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.203 Definitions.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.204 Entitlement to other rates of pay.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.205 Converting pay upon change in location of employee's official worksite.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.206 Order of processing simultaneous pay actions.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.207 Applying annual pay adjustments.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.211 Setting pay for a newly appointed employee.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.212 Superior qualifications and special needs pay-setting authority.amended 2024-04-01
- § 531.213 Setting pay upon change in position without a change in grade.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.214 Setting pay upon promotion.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.215 Setting pay upon demotion.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.216 Setting pay when an employee moves from a Department of Defense or Coast Guard nonappropriated fund instrumentality.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.217 Special conversion rules for certain non-GS employees.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.221 Maximum payable rate rule.amended 2024-04-01
- § 531.222 Rates of basic pay that may be used as the highest previous rate.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.223 Rates of basic pay that may not be used as the highest previous rate.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.241 Retaining and losing GM status.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.242 Setting pay upon loss of GM status.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.243 Promotion of a GM employee.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.244 Adjusting a GM employee's rate at the time of an annual pay adjustment.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.245 Computing locality rates and special rates for GM employees.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.246 Within-grade increases for GM employees.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.247 Maximum payable rate rule for GM employees.amended 2016-12-27
Subpart D—Within-Grade Increases
- § 531.401 Principal authorities.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.402 Employee coverage.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.403 Definitions.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.404 Earning within-grade increase.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.405 Waiting periods for within-grade increase.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.406 Creditable service.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.407 Equivalent increase determinations.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.409 Acceptable level of competence determinations.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.410 Reconsideration of a negative determination.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.411 Continuing evaluation after withholding a within-grade increase.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.412 Effective date of a within-grade increase.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.413 Reports and evaluation of within-grade increase authority.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.414 Interim within-grade increase.amended 2016-12-27
Subpart E—Quality Step Increases
- § 531.501 Applicability.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.502 Definitions.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.503 Purpose of quality step increases.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.504 Level of performance required for quality step increase.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.505 Restrictions on granting quality step increases.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.506 Effective date of a quality step increase.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.507 Agency responsibilities.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.508 Evaluation of quality step increase authority.amended 2016-12-27
Subpart F—Locality-Based Comparability Payments
- § 531.601 Purpose.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.602 Definitions.amended 2023-12-18
- § 531.603 Locality pay areas.amended 2023-12-18
- § 531.604 Determining an employee's locality rate.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.605 Determining an employee's official worksite.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.606 Maximum limits on locality rates.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.607 Computing hourly, daily, weekly, and biweekly locality rates.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.608 Relationship of locality rates to other pay rates.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.609 Adjusting or terminating locality rates.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.610 Treatment of locality rate as basic pay.amended 2016-12-27
- § 531.611 Miscellaneous provisions.amended 2016-12-27