§5755 Supervisory Differentials

Summary

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) can let an agency pay a supervisory differential to a General Schedule (GS) employee who supervises one or more workers who are not on the GS if one or more of those workers would be paid more than the supervisor without the differential. When comparing pay, extra payments like comparability pay under section 5304, other differentials, and non-basic allowances can be counted if OPM’s rules allow it. The differential can be a percent of the supervisor’s basic pay (not counting section 5304 comparability pay) or a set dollar amount. It cannot raise the supervisor’s pay to more than 3 percent above the highest-paid subordinate. The differential is not part of basic pay, cannot be appealed if cut or stopped, but that does not remove rights under subchapter II of chapter 12 or the laws mentioned in section 2302(d). The differential must be paid at the same time and in the same way the basic pay is paid. “Agency” and “employee” mean what section 5102 says. “Employee under the General Schedule” means a position covered by subchapter III of chapter 53. OPM will make any rules needed to run this program.