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Originally Posted by Parvan
....Who sets these rates? I seriously am going to write a nice long letter full of statistics to whichever agency is in charge of this.
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the rates are set according to the cost of labor not the cost of living. that's why Houston, which has a relatively low cost of living, has a high locality pay. the government uses locality pay to compete with wages earned in the private sector in any given city. Houston has many space science firms (for contracting with NASA) and lots of wealthy oil company employees so the locality pay there is among the highest in the country. locality pay is determined by the Employee Cost Index which is set by the Bureau of Labor Statistics so that's who you should write your nice long letter to.
