I understand that the longer you have been employed the more time you accrue towards leave and sick days ect per pay period. For your entire career, you will get 4 hours per pay period for SL. As for annual leave, from 0 - 3 years, you earn 4 hours of AL per pay period. From 3 - 15 years of service, you earn 6 hours per pay period of AL, and from 15 years up, you earn 8 hours per pay period of AL. Yes, military time counts here, so does any previous federal govt employment time you may have.
Does prior military time count for anything in these calculations, ie leave, sickpay, retirement? As for retirement, if you "buy back" your military time(don't ask me to explain how that works, been in for 22 years and was an OTS hire at the time), it too can count towrd retirement. But not toward your good time 20 or 25 years, its in addition to that time for computing your pension amount based upon total years of service. For example you have 4 years of military. You hire into the FAA at age 23, so will have to do 25 years of active traffic (good time - some jobs do not count towrds good time. Controller slots, first line supe slots, TMC are all good. Staff specialist jobs, even though they may remian current and work traffic are not good time), and you will be eligible to retire at age 48. You get 1.7% for the first 20 years, then 1% addl for each year after that. So you work for 25 years, all good time, in the FAA, you get 39% of the average of your "highest 3 years of consecutive (base + locaility) pay". If your high-3 average was $100,000, you would get $39,000 annually. Then remembering your 4 years of military time, you could add an addl 4% to that 39% figure, so your annual pension would be $43,000 per year pension. You also get a social security supplement in addition to your pension from the time you retire until age 62 when you will start recieveing a real SS check. This figure is roughly 65% of what you would get if you look on that statement you get every year near your B-Day from the Social Security Admin. If you take the figure on that statement where it says on the top of the 2nd page, "If you have earned enough credits to qualify for benefits. At you current earnings rate, if you stop working.....at age 62, your payment would be (insert amount here). As another example, my figure is $1593 per month. The formula is as follows: You divide the number of years you served under the Federal Employee Retirement System (we'll use 29 years again for calculation - your 25 years of FAA ATC + 4 years military) by 40 = So, 29 / 40 = 0.725. Then you take that figure and multiply it by your number off the SS Statement (we'll use my $1593 figure just for the sake of the example) = 0.725 x $1593 = $1154.92 is what I would get monthly from when I retire (at age 48) until I turn age 62. Remember this is in addition to your pension check of $43,000 annually. Retirments are paid once monthly instead of bi-weekly. So figure $43,000 / 12 months = $3583.33 + 1154.92 = $4738.25 is what you'd recive from the govt monthly when you retire before taxes and your share of health insurance premiums (the govt still pays their part even efter you retire).
Also could someone dive into Sunday premium pay? Assuming OT is the normal 1.5 x base pay, that is pretty clear. Are Holidays 2 x base? Holiday leave is double time, however if you are lucky enough to be granted holiday leave, you are paid straight time for not being there. Also if the holiday falls on your Sunday, then your holiday for pay purposes falls on your Friday, and if it falls on your Saturday, then for pay purposes its is on your Monday. (Example: You have Thursday and Fridays off, Thanks giving is on Thursday. Then your holiday is on the Saturday that you return back to work after Thanksgiving). Holidays move, for pay reasons. So just b/c you weren't there on Thursday as it was your RDO (regular day off), doesn't meaning you're not entitled to Holiday Pay. OT is time and a hlaf.
and lastly is there any other sort of abnormal pay scale that you may fall under for a specific day/time working?
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