Total Compensation Comparability for Federal Employees

GAO was requested to review the Administration's proposed total compensation comparability system and to determine how it would affect civilian employees in the Federal Government. In assessing the feasibility of total compensation comparability, GAO addressed the appropriateness of benefits included in the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) analysis, the importance of the secondary benefits to any total compensation comparison, the difficulties encountered in measuring benefits, how these measurements could affect the total comparability results, the assumptions OPM used in its actuarially based benefit evaluation models, and the methodology to be used in making annual compensation comparability adjustments.