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    Posted: 11 Nov 2009 at 12:45pm
Principessa -- The wait period is two years to go from Step 5 to Step 6. It's also two years from Step 6 to 7.

The time between within-grade-increases jumps to three years when going from Step 7 to 8, Step 8 to 9, and Step 9 to 10.

Even if you are under NSPS, and you convert back to GS, the answer is: yes -- I've heard from several fairly reliable sources that time in your "equivalent" current step (while you've been in NSPS) will count for promotion to the next step.

So if I followed your question, you would become a GS-5, Step 6 on June 1, 2010. You would jump to Step 7 on June 1, 2012. After that, next step increase would be three years -- June 1, 2015. 

But...perhaps you will be promoted to higher grade before that?Smile
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Posts: 144 		Post Options Post Options   Quote MT principessa Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Nov 2009 at 12:54pm
Thanks George.  That is exactly what I needed to know.  At 51, I am a late bloomer to Uncle Sam's workplace having started as a temp in 2001.  We have finished establishing our objectives for the coming rating period (interim??) and I have heard something "magical" is supposed to happen by April 2010.  I wonder if we will have to go through 2010 with NSPS, or will it start phasing out after mid year.  With any luck our installation will be "last".   My DH is CSRS and is praying for a VSIP or a VERA....he's a WG and didn't have to go through this mess.
 
Basically, I think folks want to know what they will "go back to", once it's all over.
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Originally posted by MT principessa

I was all set on June 1, to go from GS5 step 4 to GS5, step 5 of 2008.  I am, (maybe like a lot of those at the bottom of the food chain) not too much concerned with the deep analysis. I just want to know as of June 1, 2012, what will be my new GS level.  With limited knowledge, I do know it takes two years to go from step 5 to step 6.  So does that mean I will be GS5 step 6?  Isn't it 3 yrs to go from 5 to 6?  Just tell me what I will be and I can go on from there.  I am quite content at this level, because when I close the door at night, I drive home and don't think about the job.  I have no interest in supervising others, as I have seen my supervisor go through much hell, especially with NSPS. Thanks.Big smile


Quoting from OPM: "waiting periods are 52 weeks for steps 1-3, 104 weeks for steps 4-6, and 156 weeks for steps 7-9".

Hope this helps.

http://www.opm.gov/oca/pay/HTML/wgifact.asp


Edited by DOD_Analyst - 17 Nov 2009 at 5:59pm
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