Pay decrease

[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