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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I said it before--raise the SES Cap by $50-75k and it would temporarily fix the compression issue. That's an easier fix than overhauling the pay system (which needs to happen, but won't)[/quote]
That's not all the easy of a fix either, though.  $225-$250k would not be an unreasonable salary for level IV senior executives IMO.  But raising SES Level IV by $50,000 would be a 29% increase for political appointees.  That wouldn't be popular at all, especially if rank-and-file feds got only the usual 0%-3% raise.  I just don't see that getting political support.

If you're talking about raising the cap but not the SES itself—like saying the limit gets changed to 115% of SES Level IV—that would require a new law.  At that point, it might be easier (though by no means easy) to remove the cap entirely.  And it would have GS-15s making more than their SES bosses.  So that's probably not happening, either.

Allowing SES to get locality pay would make some sense and also fix the compression problem, but it could also be painted as giving political appointees a great big raise.

Honestly, I don't see a politically feasible fix short of a pay system overhaul (which, as you point out, isn't happening either).  No one other than GS-15s are all that converned about the plight of GS-15s (including many of us who are GS-15s and see it as part of the price of government service).

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