Group Retention Allowances

• Allows agencies to authorize retention allowances for a group or category of employees. Up to 10 percent of basic pay or up to 25 percent with OPM approval.
• Same criteria as individual retention allowances except--Agencies do not have to determine whether each individual employee in the group is likely to leave.
• Must be a high risk that a significant number of employees in the group would be likely to leave the Federal service in the absence of an allowance.
• Example—State Department IT employees.

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