Improvements Needed in the Survey of Non-Federal Salaries Used as Basis for Adjusting Federal White-collar Salaries: Report to the Congress |
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... COLLECTION PROCESS 27 33 35 36 37 Effect of job - matching variables on survey results not measured 38 Job definitions -- bridge between Govern- ment and private sector jobs 42 Job matching Training data collectors Conclusions and ...
... COLLECTION PROCESS 27 33 35 36 37 Effect of job - matching variables on survey results not measured 38 Job definitions -- bridge between Govern- ment and private sector jobs 42 Job matching Training data collectors Conclusions and ...
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... collect salary data for 79 jobs from about 3,100 private enterprise establish- ments which employ about 2.9 mil- lion white - collar workers . Job matching , a common technique used in salary and wage surveys , is a dialogue between a ...
... collect salary data for 79 jobs from about 3,100 private enterprise establish- ments which employ about 2.9 mil- lion white - collar workers . Job matching , a common technique used in salary and wage surveys , is a dialogue between a ...
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... COLLECTION PROCESS The PATC survey estimates , through a sampling method , the national average of salary rates in the private sector to assess and adjust salary rates of Federal white - collar employees . Private enterprise salary and ...
... COLLECTION PROCESS The PATC survey estimates , through a sampling method , the national average of salary rates in the private sector to assess and adjust salary rates of Federal white - collar employees . Private enterprise salary and ...
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... collection procedures are unbiased and that random errors generally balance out . However , BLS officials stated that there was a need for a formal continuous response analysis program . 三 In Elemental consistent of s ; i3- Cef- 1 41.
... collection procedures are unbiased and that random errors generally balance out . However , BLS officials stated that there was a need for a formal continuous response analysis program . 三 In Elemental consistent of s ; i3- Cef- 1 41.
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... collection plan , issuing instructions , administering and supervising the data collection , collecting survey data , and reviewing and processing the data collected . BLS stated that its data collection , analysis , and processing ...
... collection plan , issuing instructions , administering and supervising the data collection , collecting survey data , and reviewing and processing the data collected . BLS stated that its data collection , analysis , and processing ...
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1972 PATC survey adjusting Federal white-collar annual survey assessing and adjusting average salary rates bargaining basis for adjusting BLS data collectors BLS regional Bureau of Labor Chairman Civil Service Commission clerical comparability principle comparability process design and conduct Director duties and responsibilities engineering technician estimated evaluation Federal employees Federal pay Federal salary rates Federal white-collar salary Federal work force Federal work levels Government grade job-matching decisions job-matching process job-matching technique jobs surveyed Labor Statistics Management and Budget ment Million employees minimum-size criteria non-Federal salaries non-Federal sector non-Federal white-collar number of employees number of jobs obtained occupational coverage Office of Management OMB and CSC PATC job definitions pay rates payline percent posi private enterprise salary recommendations representative salary determination sample schedules Secretary of Labor statutory pay systems survey data survey of non-Federal survey results survey sample survey universe tions vate white-collar employees white-collar salary rates white-collar workers
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Page 6 - Adoption of the principle of comparability will assure equity for the Federal employee with his equals throughout the national economy -- enable the Government to compete fairly with private firms for qualified personnel -- and provide at last a logical and factual standard for setting Federal salaries.
Page 29 - State and local government salaries were considered to be "administered" rates lacking the economic characteristics of private enterprise salaries. The executive branch reasoned that State and local government salaries would have little effect on national averages since their weight would be lost in the overwhelming weight of private enterprise data. State and local government employees, however, now make up a significant portion of the labor force — over l2 million employees representing about...
Page 5 - The law, as amended, enables the President to adjust salaries annually on the basis of a national survey that compares Federal salaries with those paid for similar work in private industry. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) conducts the survey and collects salary data on 102 work-level categories in 23 occupations.
Page 29 - The standard of the private enterprise "going rate" gives objective and proper weighting to all legitimate pay factors such as dollar purchasing power, standard of living, and productivity. All of those and many other factors are in free play over the bargaining tables in private enterprise and are resolved into the general economy's "going rate." In adopting the private enterprise "going rate...
Page 6 - ... going rate' over bargaining tables and other salary determining processes in private enterprise throughout the country." The resultant legislation declared that the salary rates for white-collar employees would be based on the principle that such rates would be comparable with private enterprise rates for the same levels of work.
Page 16 - ... does not provide the framework in which employees at many different skill levels and in a broad spectrum of occupations and geographic areas can be reasonably compensated. Further it fails to recognize that the labor market consists of distinctive major groupings, which have different pay treatments. In the private sector, economic and other considerations cause occupations at equivalent Federal work levels to receive different rates of pay, often substandard.
Page 6 - The survey universe of establishments will be the same as the universe for the National Survey of Professional, Administrative, Technical, and Clerical Pay (PATC Survey).
Page 12 - In certain of those levels contained disproportionate numbers of jobs which were highly paid in the private sector, which resulted In an upward bias of the average work level rates.