MILITARY PAY TECHNICIAN

Full Job Description

This job announcement uses the USA Hire Assessment to evaluate applicants. For more information, visit USA Hire Assessment. The General Schedule (GS) basic pay schedule may vary by geographic locality.

To view pay rates in a specific location visit the Office of Personnel Management pay tables at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/ GS 5 One year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade (GS-4) within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required.

Specialized experience is defined as: performing duties that support the processing of financial/accounting transactions using standardized procedures that may include reviewing financial/accounting systems information/documents for accuracy/completeness, inputting financial/accounting information into automated systems, or correcting invalid financial/accounting transactions.

GS 6 One year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade (GS-5) within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required.

Specialized experience is defined as: using automated payroll systems to process pay actions, researching and making necessary corrections to resolve problem pay actions, and experience processing a wide variety of pay actions which require carrying out different and unrelated steps and procedures to resolve pay problems of different specialties.

Time-in-Grade: Current or former federal employees who have held a GS position in the preceding 52 weeks, must meet the time in grade requirement.

To be considered for the GS-5, applicants must have served 52 weeks as a GS-4 or higher in the Federal service.

To be considered for the GS-6, applicants must have served 52 weeks as a GS-5 or higher in the Federal service.

** The effective date of your SF-50 must reflect that you will meet the 52-week time in grade requirement within 30 days of the announcement closing.

** You may qualify for consideration if meeting time-in grade, specialized experience, education requirement, 90 days after competitive appointment requirement, and all other qualification requirements within 30 calendar days after the closing date of the announcement, unless otherwise indicated on the announcement.

This announcement will be used to fill positions with an entry grade of GS-5, or GS-6 with a target grade of GS-6. The minimum salary for grade GS-5 is $41,115, the maximum salary is $ 55,296.

The minimum salary for grade GS-6 is $45,832, the maximum salary is $61,638. Major Duties:

• Processes complicated pay cases which requires in-depth research to determine the cause of discrepancies made in the service members account.
• Processes debt collection or payment action based on the review.
• Assisting with responses to inquiries such as Congressionals, White House inquiries, etc., which require extensive research in order to formulate a response.
• Performs comprehensive review of master military pay account for separating active and/or reserve members.