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The pay scale was originally created with the purpose of keeping federal salaries in line with equivalent private sector jobs. Although never the intent, the GS pay scale does a good job of ensuring equal pay for equal work by reducing pay gaps between men, women, and minorities, in accordance with another, separate law, the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
The enlisted grades correspond with the NATO rank codes, [47] with E-1 being equivalent to OR-1, E-2 equivalent to OR-2, and so on. The officer grades are all one higher than their NATO equivalent (except O-1) as the O-1 and O-2 grades are both equivalent to the NATO code of OF-1.
A pay scale (also known as a salary structure) is a system that determines how much an employee is to be paid as a wage or salary, based on one or more factors such as the employee's level, rank or status within the employer's organization, the length of time that the employee has been employed, and the difficulty of the specific work performed.
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In 1979, an FSO-1 earned from $61,903 to $65,750 per annum, with the caveat that civil service and Foreign Service salaries were capped at $50,112.50 per annum, equal to the pay rate for Level V of the Executive Schedule, per Section 5308 of Title 5 of the U.S. Code. The top theoretical annual salary, $65,750, was equal to that of a GS-18. [9]
This practice was known as sliding fees and became a legal rule in the 20th century in the U.S. [7] [10] Eventually, changing economic conditions and the introduction of health insurance in the mid-20th century ushered an end to the sliding scale. [11] Health insurance became a conduit for billing, and it standardized fees by negotiating fee ...
Original Medicare. 2024 cost. Part A. $0 in most cases, thanks to Medicare taxes from working 10 years or more. Part A deductible. $1,632 for every hospital benefit period, without any limits ...
Prior authorization, or preauthorization, [1] is a utilization management process used by some health insurance companies in the United States to determine if they will cover a prescribed procedure, service, or medication.