Review by the lead agency.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 5

(a) The lead agency shall review all material and wage survey data forwarded by the local wage survey committee to: (1) Assure that the survey was conducted within the prescribed procedures and specifications; (2) Consider matters included in the local wage survey committee report and recommendations; (3) Exclude unusable data; (4) Resolve questionable job matching and wage rate data; and (5) Verify all computations reported on wage data collection forms. (b) The lead agency shall determine whether the usable data collected in the wage survey are adequate for computing paylines, according to the following criteria: (1) The wage survey data collected in an appropriated fund wage survey are adequate if the unweighted job matches include at least one survey job in the WG-01 through 04 range, one survey job in the WG-05 through 08 range, and two survey jobs in the WG-09 and above range, each providing at least 20 samples; and at least six other survey jobs, each providing at least 10 samples. (2) The wage survey data collected in a nonappropriated fund wage survey are adequate if the unweighted job matches include at least two survey jobs in the NA-01 through 04 range providing 10 samples each, one survey job in the NA-01 through 04 range and three survey jobs in the NA-05 through 15 range providing five samples each; two other survey jobs, each providing at least five samples, and at least 100 unweighted samples for all survey jobs combined are used in the computation of the fin

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 5:§ 532.239