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SUPV MILITARY PAY TECHNICIAN

Defense Finance and Accounting Service

Department of Defense

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$56,402 - $80,991

per year

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GS-8 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $46,479 - $60,424

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-7. Graduate study or significant experience.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job is for a supervisor overseeing a team that handles military payroll, ensuring accurate processing of pay transactions, entitlements, and problem resolutions for service members.

It involves planning work schedules, providing guidance on complex pay issues, managing staff performance, and improving processes to meet customer needs.

A good fit would be someone with experience in payroll or finance, strong leadership skills, and a detail-oriented approach to handling regulations and automated systems.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-07 (for GS-08) or GS-08 (for GS-09) in federal service, involving military payroll processing, entitlements determination, and issue resolution
  • Ability to review and verify documents for accuracy, completeness, and propriety in military pay transactions
  • Knowledge of military pay rules, procedures, and automated systems for audits, corrections, and adjustments
  • Supervisory experience in planning work, setting priorities, and overseeing subordinates in a technical environment
  • Skills in personnel management, including performance appraisals, training, and process improvements
  • Time-in-grade requirement: Held GS-07 or higher (for GS-08) or GS-08 or higher (for GS-09) in the past 52 weeks for current federal employees
  • Meet all qualifications within 30 days after the job announcement closing date

Full Job Description

This job announcement uses the Subject Matter Expert Panel Assessment to evaluate applicants.

To be hired at the GS-08 entry grade level, applicants must minimally have: One year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade (GS-07) within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required.

Specialized experience is defined as reviewing and processing a wide variety of military payroll transactions, determining entitlements, examining and verifying all documents for propriety, completeness and accuracy, reviewing and processing final actions to resolve various complicated military payroll problems or issues using variety of techniques.

To be hired at the GS-09 entry grade level, applicants must minimally have: One year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade (GS-08) within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required.

Specialized experience is defined as applying military pay rules, procedures and operations to process pay actions requiring audits, corrections, and adjustments of several interrelated aspects of military pay or resolving issues within the automated systems.

GS-08 Time-in-Grade: Current federal employees who have held a GS-07 position or higher in the preceding 52 weeks on a permanent competitive appointment may be considered.

GS-09 Time-in-Grade: Current federal employees who have held a GS-08 position or higher in the preceding 52 weeks on a permanent competitive appointment may be considered.

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.

Major Duties:

  • The duties reflected are at full performance level (GS-09). For selections below full performance level, the duties will be developmental in nature.
  • Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, establish priorities and prepare schedules for completion of work.
  • Provides advice and guidance on more complex/difficult matters of the military processing realm, provides instructions and guidance for operation of the automated system.
  • Oversees subordinate Military Pay Technicians or through Lead Military Pay Technician, and oversees the accomplishment of technical work with policy, directives, regulations, and reporting requirements.
  • Makes decisions, issues instructions and provides guidance for work performed.
  • Performs internal personnel administration and management tasks, and certifies position descriptions, develops performance plans and prepares performance appraisals.
  • Responsible for process improvement, through ongoing analysis of customer needs to increase productivity and quality.
  • Gives informal training and cross-training on military pay entitlements, regulatory guidance, finance operating procedures and transactions processing.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/27/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/27/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: IN-12895528-26