Title 5
General Schedule (GS) and Wage Grade (WG): Pay systems for the majority of NIH employees, authorized under Title 5, and including the General Schedule (GS/GM) and Wage Grade (WG/WS/WL) pay plans.
- OPM 2009 General Schedule (GS) Locality Pay Tables
- 2009-DCB Washington-Baltimore-MD-VA-WV Locality Annual and Hourly
- 2009-GS Annual and Hourly
- Complete set of Locality Tables Annual and Hourly
(OPM) - 2009-RUS Rest of the US Locality Annual and Hourly
- Pay and Hours of Work Fact Sheets
- OPM Federal Wage System
- Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Management System (DOD CPMS) - Federal Wage Schedule
- Special Salary Rates
Senior, Executive & Scientific (ES/SL/ST): Senior Level and Scientific or Professional (SL/ST). The employment system that applies to any positions that are classified above GS-15 and involve executive management and high policy-making responsibilities.
- 2009 Basic Rates of Pay for Members of the SES (OPM)
- 2009 Executive Schedule (EX) (OPM)
- 2009 Base Rates of Pay for SL/ST (OPM)
- 2009 Locality Rates of Pay for SL/ST (OPM)
Title 38
Title 38 Physician and Dentist Pay (PDP) (NIH Only): A hybrid pay authority intended to recruit and retain highly qualified physicians and dentists by providing a mechanism to compensate them at levels comparable to private sector physicians and dentists within the same locality area.
Title 38 Nurses and Allied Health Professionals: Higher base pay scales authorized for nurses (pay plan GN) and allied health professionals (pay plans GS,GM) when necessary to address documented recruitment/retention problems and to provide rates that are competitive with the relevant labor market.
Title 42
Title 42 Section 209 (f) and (g): Title 42 is the term commonly used at NIH to reference human resources appointing authorities that appear in Title 42, 209 (f) and (g) of the United States Code. Title 42 is a flexible hiring mechanism that allows NIH to attract and retain staff with outstanding scientific, technical and clinical skills. NIH staff should visit the Title 42 portal page for information on Title 42.
Senior Biomedical Research Service (SBRS) : The Senior Biomedical Research Service (SBRS) is designed for scientists who are considered by their peers to be outstanding in their work, and who are engaged in either peer-reviewed, original, biomedical research, or clinical research evaluation. SBRS members’ pay may be set from a GS-15, step 1, to Executive Level I. NIH staff should visit the Title 42 portal page for information on the SBRS.
Clinical Research Support (CRS): A Title 42 excepted service employment system for Clinical Center (CC) employees engaged in direct or indirect clinical research patient care services.
- 2009 Title 42 CRS Pay Ranges
- 2009 Title 42 CRS Nurse AD-610 Pay rates
(Per Diem float Pool Nurses only) - Clinical Research Support Compensation System (NIH Only)
