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Options for getting from gs14 to gs15 (besides more job applications)
There is no other way if you are not in a ladder position. You just apply and apply that is it.
Apply for 15s. The process to rewrite a PD to accommodate a new grade isn’t simple and the elusive non-supervisory 15 is even more rare.
The key is to take part in the programs. Do the rotation, join the working group, take the classes in leadership, learn a skill that people hate to learn. Take training. Join a mentoring program. It doesn’t always help you as an individual but if you’re otherwise doing great work, show you want it by doing the stuff no one likes to do.
I’m a 14, but I work in mostly executive filled spaces so I see what they value in moving people up and I have had opportunities to move to 15 I didn’t take, because I don’t want to be a manager and the non-managerial 15 I could have pursued (I know I could have gotten it because I worked for an Office Director at the time and he told me) came along when I found a job at a FIRREA. All the random stuff is what got me that job, though. Sometimes it does actually prove useful, too. The rotations are probably the most valuable.
Points taken thank you. Especially "Do the rotation, join the working group, take the classes in leadership, learn a skill that people hate to learn" which is what I'm already doing :-).
But I will remain a contented 14 until the right 15 opp comes along (e.g. no supervisory)
Why do you want to be a 15?
Depending on where you are, you aren't going to get paid much more with the pay cap. If you like your job and the people you work with - there isn't much upside to getting a 15.
For the DC area, you’re right— it’d be a very insignificant salary increase— but other locations it might be more significant. My location, in a Midwest area, there are salary increases up through 15/10
Apply for GS-15s.