Broadband Pay Experience in the Public Sector

The Academy's Human Resources Management Panel (HRM Panel) released a series of reports, from 2003 to 2004, on the adoption and implementation of broadband pay systems in the public and private sectors. The first report focused on the private sector’s experience with broadband pay and identified emerging trends in compensation policy and practices used by private industry. In this second report, the HRM Panel benchmarked most of the federal and state organizations that had been given authority to test the broadband approach to paying civil servants.

The third report assessed the effectiveness of these approaches and recommended options for compensation systems that the federal government could consider. Coupled with the other two reports in the series, this second report explores the public sector's experiences with broadbanding and the lessons learned from those experiences.