How the SEC Sets Salaries

The SEC’s pay-setting practices are structured to ensure consistency and objectivity by using tools termed “pay matrices.” Specifically, use of the pay matrices ensures that a new employee’s pay is set commensurate with the experience—both “relevant” and ”specialized”—that he or she brings to the position.

• Relevant experience includes experience not directly related to the duties of the position but which nonetheless prepares the candidate for success in the position.
• Specialized experience includes technical experience directly related to the duties of the position to be filled.

Information Used by Office of Human Resources Staff to Set Pay

The resume a job candidate submits when applying for an SEC position is used by Office of Human Resources (OHR) Compensation Team to identify creditable relevant and/or specialized experience. The SEC encourages job candidates to provide the following information to ensure that compensation is set accurately:

• Complete work history (e.g., not just the most recent 10 or 15 years)
• Job titles
• Duties for each job (be specific in describing the duties)
• Start and end dates for each job, including month and year
• Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)

Base Pay Ranges

SK Employees

The base pay ranges for the different levels of SK series employees are as follows:

Locality Pay

The locality rates presented below are applied to an employee’s basic pay based on the duty location.

The salary cap, including locality pay, is $255,800 for all SK staff.

All locations use minimum and maximum/cap

Senior Officers

The pay ranges for the Senior Officer levels are as follows:

All locations use minimum and maximum/cap.

Updated and finalized 4/01/2021