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REPORT TO CONGRESS

SALINAS-MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, FEDERAL WAGE SYSTEM WAGE AREA

VIII. Conclusion

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has well-established regulatory criteria for defining Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area boundaries on a consistent basis. These criteria allow for reasonable flexibility, but also ensure that OPM is able to maintain an equitable, market-based pay system for blue-collar Federal employees. The Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee has not supported the abolishment of the Salinas-Monterey wage area in the past because it meets all of the criteria recommended by the Committee to remain as a separate wage area. OPM's analysis of the criteria for defining FWS wage area boundaries indicates that the Government can best determine local prevailing rates for FWS employees in Monterey and San Benito Counties by maintaining a separate Salinas-Monterey wage area. As part of an ongoing long-term cyclical review process, OPM's next study of the definition of the Salinas-Monterey wage area will take place after we receive new census data in 2003.

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