[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 699]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR550.151]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 550--PAY ADMINISTRATION (GENERAL)--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart A--Premium Pay
 
Sec. 550.151  Authorization of premium pay on an annual basis.

    An agency may pay premium pay on an annual basis, instead of other 
premium pay prescribed in this subpart (except premium pay for regular 
overtime work, and work at night, on Sundays, and on holidays), to an 
employee in a position in which the hours of duty cannot be controlled 
administratively and which requires substantial amounts of irregular or 
occasional overtime work, with the employee generally being responsible 
for recognizing, without supervision, circumstances which require the 
employee to remain on duty. Premium

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pay under this section is determined as an appropriate percentage, not 
less than 10 percent nor more than 25 percent, of the employee's rate of 
basic pay (as defined in Sec. 550.103).

[57 FR 2435, Jan. 22, 1992, as amended at 61 FR 3543, Feb. 1, 1996]