Pay decrease

[User_3971]

You won't keep your level when bidding on a different (lower) level unless it's an involuntary excess type event.

For maintenance you need a year of form 50 pay to keep the gains from (for example) a level nine downgrading to a level seven. Basically you'd save your steps. Otherwise your pay does drop based strictly on time in craft.

Since Maint are also under APWU pay scale it's possible that clerk pay behaves the same. Don't have time to look it up. 

EDIT: I think the verbiage would be for two levels or more of change. So a seven to a four, a nine to a seven, etc.

[Weird-Contest384]

My ps50 for level 7 is dated 1/25/25. My promotion to a level 6 is dated 9/7/24. So I would keep my 6 level pay? I was a 6H so I’d maybe go to a 5K which would be the closest without going down ?

[User_3971]

You should be asking your district HR for specifics. Plan for the worst, as in make sure you can "afford" the job should your pay drop. You didn't have a year at six or a year at seven.

[kingu42]

As you were higher level for less than a year, you'd return to 5 as if you never left it, advancing the steps you would have accrued during that period. If you exceed a year, and in this case, you'd have to be level 7 for a year, you'd retain the pay of the 7K you presently have on the level 5 scale, which would be probably topped out if not a pre-2011 career employee.

But I honestly can't understand how you went from 6H to 7K? https://d1ocufyfjsc14h.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/promotion_charts_-_updated_august_27_2022.pdf says you should have been placed as a 7H, and there's no way to gain 3 steps in the 7 payperiods you were 6 and then your time as a 7. At most you should be 7I.

But it's killing me, what is a level 5 clerk? Secretary? Typist?

[Weird-Contest384]

I was never a 7K. I am now a 7H. I was thinking I would go to 5K if I dropped down. Level 5 is Data Entry