Grades and Ranks

HRSA’s Bargaining Unit Employees:

Under Article 1 of the DHHS/HRSA-NTEU Collective Bargaining Agreement, NTEU is the exclusive representative of all professional and nonprofessional employees of DHHS/HRSA except management officials, supervisors, summer employees, Commissioned Offices, stay-in-school students, student trainees, interns, employees of the Hansens Disease Center at Carville, Louisiana, and employees described in 5 U.S.C., Section 7112 (b) (2), (3), (4), (6) and (7).

On the question of how Federal Civil Service (GS) Employees and Public Health Service (PHS) Commissioned Corps (CC) Officers are compared equivalently by grade/rank? Please see the equivalency chart on the www.usphs.gov website (Click on “Jobs”, then “Grades Titles and Billets”).

Detailed CC billet descriptions can be found at http://dcp.psc.gov/. Click on “Services” then click on “Billet Information”. Most descriptions include information regarding GS-equivalent series and grade as well as years of experience.

Please direct additional questions to the Union office at 301-443-3377 or via email nteuchapter272@hrsa.gov. Thanks.