Federal Workers Don’t See Link Between Pay, Performance

Federal employees still can’t see the link between how well they perform their jobs and their pay increases, according to results from a wide-ranging workforce survey that got nearly 600,000 responses.

Just 26 percent of workers agreed with the statement that “pay raises depend on how well employees perform their jobs” in the just-released 2018 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.

Government needs to do a better job of “measuring performance against rewards,” Margaret Weichert, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, said in a message on the OPM’s website. Weichert, the government’s top HR official, has made linking pay ...