# 2025-09931: Hennepin County Loses Its Own Federal Wage-Area Status

2025-09931, Prevailing Rate Systems; Abolishment of Hennepin, Minnesota, as a Nonappropriated Fund Federal Wage System Wage Area, is a Federal Register proposed rule from Personnel Management Office published 2025-06-02, effective These changes would be effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after 30 days following publication of the final rule.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-27).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-09931
- As of: 2026-10-27
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-09931
- Title: Prevailing Rate Systems; Abolishment of Hennepin, Minnesota, as a Nonappropriated Fund Federal Wage System Wage Area
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: Personnel Management Office
- Citation: 90 FR 23292
- Published: 2025-06-02
- Effective: These changes would be effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after 30 days following publication of the final rule.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: 3206-AO83
- Last updated: 2026-10-27

## In one line

Hennepin County Loses Its Own Federal Wage-Area Status

## Summary

The Office of Personnel Management wants to stop treating Hennepin, Minnesota, as its own special wage area for certain federal jobs because fewer people work there now. Instead, most counties will join nearby wage areas, and those without jobs won’t be assigned at all. This change helps keep pay fair and up-to-date, with comments open until July 2, 2025.

## Abstract

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to abolish the Hennepin, Minnesota, nonappropriated fund (NAF) Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area and define most of its counties to the nearest NAF FWS wage areas. Those counties without NAF FWS employment would no longer be defined to a NAF wage area. These changes are necessary because NAF FWS employment in the survey area has been declining, and the local activities no longer have the capability to conduct local wage surveys.

## Effects PRIA read

- Abolish Hennepin NAF wage area: benefit, low. OPM proposes to abolish the Hennepin, Minnesota, nonappropriated fund (NAF) Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area and define Hennepin County as an area of application to the Grand Forks, North Dakota, NAF wage area. Currently there are 18 NAF FWS employees at the Minneapolis‑St. Paul Air Reserve Stat…
- Morrison and Stearns reassigned to Grand Forks: benefit, low. OPM proposes to redefine Morrison and Stearns Counties, Minnesota, as areas of application to the Grand Forks, North Dakota, NAF wage area. The document states there are currently 6 NAF FWS employees in Morrison County and 6 NAF FWS employees in Stearns County who work outside the original survey a…
- Monroe County moved to Lake, Illinois area: benefit, low. Although Monroe County, Wisconsin, meets regulatory criteria to be its own NAF survey area, OPM is defining Monroe County as an area of application to the Lake, Illinois, NAF wage area. The document reports 51 NAF FWS employees currently work in Monroe County.

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## Sources
- [2025-09931 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/02/2025-09931/prevailing-rate-systems-abolishment-of-hennepin-minnesota-as-a-nonappropriated-fund-federal-wage)
- [2025-09931 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-02/pdf/2025-09931.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-09931 (as of 2026-10-27).