Like all positions on the General Schedule, there are 10 steps within each grade. Those 10 steps account for the $22,689 range in the GS-13 federal pay scale for base earnings. Newly hired federal government employees typically start at Step 1 in their grade and advance one step each year...
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So let me answer the question a couple of ways. First of all, a spot observation on non-comp expense in the year. So our non-comp was up 8% ex-litigation. Of about $900 million of non-comp expense increase year-over-year, about two-thirds, in excess of $600 ...