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FPCD-81-52 1 (1981-07-28)

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BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL



Report To The Congress


OF THE UNITED STATES


Employment Trends And Grade Controls In

The DOD General Schedule Work Force


The Department of Defense's General Schedule
average grade rose from 7.29 in 1964 to 7.89
in 1980. This was due, in large part, to technol-
ogy advancement and increasingly complex
defense work, creating the need for more high
grade professional, administrative, and tech-
nical workers and fewer low grade clerical per-
sonnel. It was not possible to determine the
amount of grade escalation caused by any one
fac to r.

DOD's grade escalation was less than that ex-
perienced in other Federal agencies, suggest-
ing that control mechanisms applied in DOD
slowed growth. However, some controls can
produce staffing imbalances, poor morale, re-
duced services, and other cost inefficiencies.
Position management offers a better alterna-
tive to control unnecessary grade escalation.
It does not arbitrarily cap justified grade in-
creases, and it avoids the problems associated
with other controls now in place.


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JULY 28, 1981


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