{"data":{"id":"us/5-cfr-531.243","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"5 CFR 531.243","heading":"Promotion of a GM employee.","body":"(a) Upon promotion, an employee's status as a GM employee ends, as provided in § 531.241(b).\n(b) When an employee loses status as a GM employee because of a temporary promotion and is returned to the lower grade upon expiration or termination of the temporary promotion under § 531.215(c)(1), he or she will be deemed to have been placed at the lowest step rate that equals or exceeds the employee's former GS rate (as a GM employee) on the effective date of the temporary promotion, before applying any other step increases based on his or her service during the temporary promotion.\n(c) A GM employee's GS rate is used as the existing rate of pay in applying the promotion rule in § 531.214. A GM employee's off-step GS rate in the grade before promotion is not converted to a GS step rate in applying the promotion rule, but the employee must be placed on a GS step rate in the post-promotion grade.","path":["Title 5—Administrative Personnel","CHAPTER I—OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT","SUBCHAPTER B—CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS","PART 531—PAY UNDER THE GENERAL SCHEDULE","Subpart B—Determining Rate of Basic Pay"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-5.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:23:53Z","sha256":"7c02e006666e9a81eadaa30c8f1c14cfe9a1aad54dbecc0c45915307f8e50839","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/5-cfr-531.242","next":"us/5-cfr-531.244"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}