Executives continue to earn high performance marks (govt wide avg $12,883)

[The Straight Story]

Executives continue to earn high performance marks
By Shawn Zeller
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Agencies continued to rate the performance of their senior executives at very high levels in 2003, according to new data released by the Office of Personnel Management.

The percentage of career senior executives given their agencies' highest possible rating was 74.5 percent in 2003, just one-tenth of 1 percent lower than in 2002. Governmentwide, 57.4 percent of senior executives received performance bonuses, averaging $12,883.


Those percentages may decrease when 2004 figures are released. In December 2004, OPM and the Office of Management and Budget finalized regulations that require agencies to set up rigorous performance evaluation systems in exchange for the right to lift maximum SES salaries to about $160,000 a year.


Last year, 26 agencies won provisional certification, which must be renewed annually, and two others - the General Services Administration and Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation - earned full certification.

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