Claim for Retroactive Pay Incident to Promotion and Transfer to a New Wage Area

An appeal was made of a determination denying a claim for retroactive pay incident to promotion and transfer to a new wage area. The claimant asserted that because of the special wage schedule at Hill Air Force Base he was denied the one-step increment increase that a wage board employee is entitled to upon promotion, and he argued that his rate of pay should have been set at WG-11, step 3 at the time of promotion. The claimant's pay upon promotion was in excess of the one-step increase and appeared to be set in accordance with applicable regulations. The employee argued that under regulations, he was entitled to a higher rate of pay where more than one personnel action was effected at the same time. The regulation which the claimant cited concerned conversion to the Coordinated Federal Wage System and was not applicable to his promotion and transfer to a new wage area. Accordingly, the prior determination was sustained denying the claim for retroactive pay.