Broadband Pay Experience in the Private Sector

The Human Resources Management Consortium asked the Academy’s Human Resources Management Panel (Panel) and the Center for Human Resources Management to: catalogue the private and public experience with broadband systems in order to identify which aspects were effective; highlight other lessons learned from system users; identify other compensation systems that the private or public sectors employ, which might be appropriate for broader use in the federal sector; and recommend an approach for the use of broadbanding and/or other alternative systems as a replacement for the GS system, or for broader use by federal agencies.

This report on private sector broadbanding experiences was the first in a series of three reports designed to achieve the objectives listed above. It was followed by a report on broadbanding experiences in the public sector, primarily federal agencies. A third report provided analysis of the first two reports and made recommendations on how broadbanding systems could be used effectively by the federal government.