At the Women Tech Leaders Event hosted by GovCIO on April 13, Devon Beard, director of people operations at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), explained her agency is looking forward to being able to bump up IT salaries significantly, and soon.
“That’s definitely a huge challenge,” Beard said. “We’ve been sharing a partnership with OPM, a special salary rate that we’re hoping to implement this year in the third quarter for the 2210 series, and it will address the pay gap depending on the locality up to 60 percent,” she said…
“We don’t just work here to get a check,” she said. “You have to fill it deeper, and that comes into benefit programs, child subsidy programs, benefits as far as health care … We’re not just here to support them in their professional development, we’re here to support the human being behind that.” … Read the full article here.
