NSPS: The Webinar
If you weren't among the hundreds of people who participated in our webinar yesterday featuring the Pentagon's Mary Lacey talking about the implementation of the National Security Personnel System, you can still go in and view the archived version. It was a lively event, and timely, too, since the Defense Department just issued performance-based raises to thousands of employees under the new system.
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I can't run the application through my dial-up but if Lacey was bragging about the 7.6% vs. the Congressional pay raise, I need to make a point about averages.
The money in the NSPS pay-pool was obtained by combining many money sources in the GS into a single pool. So the total money to be given out in the form of raises, bonuses, promotions, etc. was = M no matter which system, GS or NSPS, was averaged. Also, the people to which the money applied was = N, no matter which system, GS or NSPS was averaged.
What this means is that the tooted 7.6% average would have been the average for these people NSPS or no NSPS.
The data that is needed is a comprehensive spreadsheet that shows where the money got shifted and who, by grade, agency, age, sex, etc., received how much of the pie. This is because the pie did not increase or decrease and the number of people did not increase or decrease so an average is irrelevant since it is the one number that would not change between GS and NSPS, it was A = M/N.
I have been astonished that newspappers and newsletters have been reporting this number and tooting an invalid comparison to the GS pay raise, only one part of the salary increase sources under GS that made up the pool. Of course a subset,S, of the money in M is smaller than M. Is everyone lame? If S I can't run the application through my dial-up but if Lacey was bragging about the 7.6% vs. the Congressional pay raise, I need to make a point about averages.
The money in the NSPS pay-pool was obtained by combining many money sources in the GS into a single pool. So the total money to be given out in the form of raises, bonuses, promotions, etc. was = M no matter which system, GS or NSPS, was averaged. Also, the people to which the money applied was = N, no matter which system, GS or NSPS was averaged.
What this means is that the tooted 7.6% average would have been the average for these people NSPS or no NSPS.
The data that is needed is a comprehensive spreadsheet that shows where the money got shifted and who, by grade, agency, age, sex, etc., received how much of the pie. This is because the pie did not increase or decrease and the number of people did not increase or decrease so an average is irrelevant since it is the one number that would not change between GS and NSPS, it was A = M/N.
I have been astonished that newspappers and newsletters have been reporting this number and tooting an invalid comparison to the GS pay raise, only one part of the salary increase sources under GS that made up the pool. Of course a subset,S, of the money in M is smaller than M. Is everyone lame? If S
Annie Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:51 AMGo Annie! Even if you got cut off, I believe ya girl!
iggy Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:59 AMMy last sentence was cut off. What it said was:
If S is less than M then S/N is less than M/N.
That is why the GS pay raise subset of the NSPS pool gives a lower percent than the entire pool. It is just a trick with numbers that aren't comparable.
Annie Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:19 AMFunny, but I haven't heard anyone except upper management saying great things about NSPS. At least 95% of the people that I talk to hate it.
DoD Employee Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:34 AM