National Compensation Survey

ICR 201410-1220-001

OMB: 1220-0164

Federal Form Document

ICR Details
1220-0164 201410-1220-001
Historical Active 201404-1220-002
DOL/BLS
National Compensation Survey
Revision of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved without change 04/21/2015
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 03/16/2015
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
04/30/2018 36 Months From Approved 04/30/2015
53,831 0 38,813
44,978 0 36,930
0 0 0

Under the National Compensation Survey (NCS), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) conducts ongoing surveys of compensation and job characteristics. Data collected by the NCS is used to produce Employment Cost Trends, including the Employment Cost Index (ECI) and Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (ECEC), employee benefits data, and data used by the President's Pay Agent. For the President's Pay Agent the BLS introduced in 2011 a new approach that uses data from two current BLS programs – the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey and the ECI program. This approach uses OES data to provide wage data by occupation and by area, while ECI data are used to specify grade level effects. This approach is also being used to extend the estimation of pay gaps to areas that were not included in the prior Locality Pay Survey sample, and this data has been delivered to the Pay Agent.

US Code: 5 USC 5318 Name of Law: The Ethics Reform Act of 1989
   US Code: 29 USC 2b Name of Law: Studies of Productivity and Labor Costs in Industries
   US Code: 5 USC 5304 Name of Law: The Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990
  
None

Not associated with rulemaking

  79 FR 65706 11/05/2014
80 FR 13634 03/16/2015
Yes

  Total Approved Previously Approved Change Due to New Statute Change Due to Agency Discretion Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses 53,831 38,813 0 15,018 0 0
Annual Time Burden (Hours) 44,978 36,930 0 8,048 0 0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yes
Miscellaneous Actions
No
The burden increase of 8,049 hours is due to the NCS transition to a 3 year collection cycle. Under this cycle design for NCS, most private industry establishments only will be in the sample for 3 years compared to previously being in the survey 5 years. The first year of the private industry cycle also has greater initiation burden hours as the aircraft manufacturing and large firms with a sample weight of 1 enter the survey during that year.

$53,000,000
Yes Part B of Supporting Statement
No
Yes
No
No
Uncollected
Philip Doyle 202 691-6200 [email protected]

  No

On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    (i) Why the information is being collected;
    (ii) Use of information;
    (iii) Burden estimate;
    (iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
    (v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
    (vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
 
 
 
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
03/16/2015


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