Wage Determination

[theduke]

Anyone know how I can get ahold of PMEL wage determinations from various locations?  Yes, I'm looking for ammo for a raise or a career change.

[CalLabSolutions]

NCSLI did one a few years back..
But it didn't really tell you anything related to what you should make.  The pay range was fairly wide everywhere.

Mike.

[CalibratorJ]

For a decent baseline, you could use these

http://www.cpms.osd.mil/Subpage/AFWageSchedules/
http://www.cpms.osd.mil/Content/AF%20Schedules/survey-sch/107/107R-10Apr2013.html
That one covers Wright Pat if I am not mistaken.

That covers the government Wage Grade jobs, which I believe the majority of DoD labs are, save the contracted ones and the few that have GS series jobs. Usually the wage grade tech positions are WG11 or WG12 with WL for the "Lead" tech in the lab, and WS for the chief (at least for the Army). Even these are a lowball without some decent benefits from a commercial company, as even WG employees get moderately priced health insurance, pension and 401k, amongst all the other goodies.

Good luck, hope you get somewhere!

** edit, just noticed you are at Wright Pat, or however you spell it - which either means you are already WG or a contractor, in which case, I think contractors usually make more per hour than their WG counterparts to offset the difference in benefits. Good luck getting a pay raise......

[BigPMELDude]

For sh!ts and giggles you might want to look at
https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=7b7a6177b3d33c6e1459cb13e3ac5737.

Shows some WGS and CBA's for the PMELS that are going to be under the new big PMEL contract

[spanishfly25]

A very good Question and almost impossible to answer. Range can go from $11/Hr.all the way up to $50/Hr., depending a lot on location, types of instruments that you calibrate, and if is a management position or not.  I am in NJ and here they normally pay $5/hr. more than in Florida for exactly the same job. companies that only calibrate Scales pay a lot less than guys that work on analytical instruments

[USMCPMEL]

I think your best bet it to go in based on what you have done for your company. You have to make sure that your comparing apples to apples. You can not just say look these guys down the road are making $32 an hour and I am only making $25 so then your boss will ask you well how much do they make for the company what are the benefits there? Do they work harder than you? Do they have more or less experience than you? There is a lot to be considered when trying to get a raise based on a "wage determination"

[USMC kalibrater]

High quality, knowledgable trained metrology people are hard to find. 
If you know your stuff and know how to sell yourself you can do quite well in any market.
I live in Florida and I do make on the upper end of the going pay range.  I also have years of experience, extra education and I know my stuff

[USMC kalibrater]

Oh the original poster if @ Wright-Pat....damn bro.  I dont think it's possible for any company to pay what is worth to  live in Dayton.   Although the best wings ever are at Bullies in Tipp City, atleast they were 12 years ago or so

[yonker08]

I don't know kali we lived there pretty well, you just have to know where to have a house. Yes, there is no amount of money you could pay me to have lived in Dayton itself. We started in Beavercreek and then moved to Xenia Township. The big plus was no Income Tax in either place. We were there for 16 years before the job got contracted. I had 25 years experience and Raython offered me half what I was making and less then half in benies. Needless to say I ended up finishing my retirement working for the Army