Date of Award

5-30-2020

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Public Administration (MPA)

Abstract

The United States continues to overspend on their annual budgets; consequently, increasing the already unsurmountable national debt. In order to start reducing this debt, Government agencies, and the Government as a whole, should begin to look at broad ways they can reduce spending. One of these areas to examine should be federal employee salaries, as there are numerous studies that demonstrate how Government employees make more than private sector employees, which will be corroborated by several discussions in the literature review. An easy, but not so simple solution, is to reduce annual salaries of the current Government employees without having to take away jobs. The elimination of the two-grade interval promotion for General Schedule pay scale employees would do just this, reduce their current promotion salaries, while still allowing them to maintain their job and benefits. An analysis comparing the current two-grade interval to the proposed one-grade interval will validate the costs saving per employee over a four-year period.

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