Prevailing Wage

This is not about wages. This is about pay grade.

•This is not about locality pay.
•This is not about wages.
•This is not about cost-of-living or locality pay.
•This is about Equal Pay Grade for Equal Work in a job that mostly women do.
•Women dominate the low end of the field at the NYRO making this a women’s issue.

•This is about Equal Pay Grade for Equal Work – a Human Right

This is about GS Grade level for doing the exact same job in the same environment and having a lower grade status.

Using Prevailing Wages as a reason for higher grade is contrary to why the General Schedule GS framework was established.