The imminent demise of the National Security Personnel System leaves many wondering about the prospects for pay for performance in government. From the day the Federal Civil Service was created in ...

Some federal employees believe that the National Security Personnel System, the federal government’s fledgling pay-for-performance system, was a bad idea from the get-go and that its demise could not ...

For a window on federal pay practices, look no further than the conversion of the Senior Executive Service. Under a law that kicked in last month, the 6,000 members of the SES are no longer entitled ...

Pay for performance may be coming back, even though past efforts have failed. Do you think it stands a chance in the federal government? Why can't the federal government get pay-for-performance right?

The Defense Department has announced the creation of its National Security Personnel System (NSPS) Transition Office, which will oversee the conversion of about 200,000 DOD employees from the ...

Houston ISD teacher salaries could soon range from $64,000 to $101,000 per year depending largely on employees’ performance ratings, ending a long-time practice of paying educators based on years of ...

Hayley Bakker is the Head of Customer Journey & Digital Enablement at beqom, which supports pay equity with data-driven software. The idea of paying for performance is a reassuring narrative.

When the Defense Department launched a new way of rating and compensating some of its employees more than two years ago, the National Security Personnel System was billed as an innovation that would ...

A Houston teachers union is advocating against a possible overhaul to the pay scale that could base salaries for some teachers entirely on evaluations, rather than tenure. The Houston Education ...