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FPCD-80-82 1 (1980-09-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbcn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RELESED RESTRICTED - Not to be c;,ea d outside the General Accounting Office except on the basis of specific approval by the Office of Congressional Relations. COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 B-200152 SEPTEMBER 3,1980 The Honorable Gladys Noon Spellman Chair, Subcommittee on Compensation and Employee Benefits Committee on Post Office and civil Service 113499 House of Representatives Dear Madam Chair: Subject: (Total Compensation Comparability for Federal Employees(FPCD-80-82) On August 7, 1979, you requested us to review the Administration's proposed total compensation comparability system (S. 1340 and H.R. 4477) and determine how it will affect Federal employees. In our assessment of the feasi- bility of total compensation comparability, you asked that we address the appropriateness of benefits included in the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM's) analysis, the as- sumptions OPM used in its actuarially based benefit evalua- tion models, and the methodology to be used in making annual compensation comparability adjustments. As arranged with your office, we are sending you this interim report on the results of our review. It includes our concerns over the methods used by OPM in its full-scale test of the total compensation system. Our conclusions and recommendations will be included in the full report to be issued in October 1980. We believe that, if these concerns are not considered, the credibility and soundness of the total compensation comparability system will be affected. Our review has shown that: 1. Secondary benefits are important. --Some benefits received by many private sec- tor employees are not included in OPM's formal benefit models. Our national survey of these secondary benefits showed that (963121)

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