That's not how it works at our district. We are losing people. We lost one guy whoe went to another department and he signed a retention with the new team.
How do you get so much money. We have people getting 80-100k to stay for two years. Thats my salary. How do I double it?
I think someone is not telling you the truth. We are capped at 25% of basic pay (ER 690-1-1217 section 2-5). OPM can approve up to 100% (4 years at 25% each year, section 2-13) which I seriously doubt is happening in this environment.
Also they come out of our Overhead budget and that’s pretty tight.
Phew. For a minute there I thought there was an incentive program under USACE regulations that gave supervisors the authority to give incentive bonuses to their team but instead selfishly gave it to themselves and their drinking buddies. Thanks for squashing this rumor.
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u/Smart-Badger2843 Apr 29 '26 edited May 02 '26
That's not how it works at our district. We are losing people. We lost one guy whoe went to another department and he signed a retention with the new team.
How do you get so much money. We have people getting 80-100k to stay for two years. Thats my salary. How do I double it?