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Overseas Telework

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Civil Service DETO employees are eligible for location-based comparability pay in accordance with Section 9717 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 117-263). Under this authority, Civil Service DETOs will receive location-based comparability pay that is equal to the lesser of the following:

The locality pay the employee would have received had they not moved overseas as a DETO; or

The current rate of Overseas Comparability Pay (OCP) paid to eligible Foreign Service employees working overseas, including Foreign Service employees on DETO arrangements. OCP is currently set at two-thirds the rate of DC locality pay.

Foreign Service DETO employees are paid based on the overseas FS pay scale, which includes Overseas Comparability Pay (OCP). 

 

 

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