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GS to NSPS Conversion Calculator

Updated based on 2009 NSPS pay tables

Complete steps 1 through 9 in the calculator on this page to determine your NSPS career group, pay schedule, pay band, and estimated within-grade increase (WGI) buy-in. This calculator is intended to help you understand the NSPS conversion process, and is not intended to result in official conversion information. The calculator has been updated based on 2009 NSPS pay tables, announced by DoD in January 2009. Your official conversion information, including your WGI buy-in amount, will be communicated to you at the time of conversion. There are some conversion scenarios (mix of occupational series, grade, and responsibilities) that require management decisions. The prorated WGI buy-in is not applicable to employees whose performance has been determined to be below an acceptable level. If you have any questions, please consult your local human resources office.

Part One: Complete steps 1-5 to determine your NSPS career group, pay schedule and pay band. Step 1:
Select your occupational series:

Step 2:
Select your current GS grade and step:

Step 3:
Are you a supervisor?	No Yes

Step 4:
Click the calculate button:

Step 5:
Review your NSPS career group, pay schedule and pay band. The pay band salary ranges and your new base salary do not include a local market supplement. Additional information on local market supplements is provided at the bottom of this page.

Career Group:
Pay Schedule:
Pay Band:

* Notes:

Part Two: Complete steps 6-9 to estimate your WGI buy-in. Step 6:
When is your organization converting to NSPS?

Step 7:
When was your last WGI, promotion, or other equivalent increase?

Step 8:
Click the calculate button:

Step 9:
Review your buy-in information. Your base salary does not include a local market supplement.

Current Base Salary:	$
Buy-in Amount:	$
New Base Salary:	$ (base salary does not include a Local Market Supplement)

Buy-in Explanation:





Additional Information on Local Market Supplements:
Local market supplements (LMSs) are additional payments to employees in specified local market areas, occupations, specializations, or pay bands that are not adequate by world-wide pay band rate ranges. LMSs replace locality pay and special salary rates in NSPS. There are no special salary rates in NSPS..

Special salary rates will, in most cases, be subsumed within the broader pay ranges of the NSPS pay bands (including the addition of the standard local market supplement). For employees paid from a special salary table that has a maximum that exceeds the pay band maximum (plus the applicable standard LMS), a targeted LMS will be established. The targeted LMS will ensure that such employees will convert to NSPS without a loss in pay. At the time of conversion, employees’ GS adjusted salary (base rate plus special rate supplement) will be the same as their NSPS adjusted salary (base rate plus local market supplement).