by DifferentGuest » Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:27 pm
salaryyyy wrote:I was talking to my POC at my SF (keep in mind she doesn't really know all that much about SMART) and she told me that their agency pays GS-11 out of college with your bachelors'.
My question is after I graduate who will pay my salary and, will it be my SF or will SMART continue to be the one who continues to pay me?
also, the internship is technically unpaid if you live close to SF right? (I would just continue getting paid the stipend)
GS-11 is very high for a Bachelor's, typically a Bachelor's degree would get you GS-5 or assuming you did reasonable well at school, a GS-7 (The minimum GPA for SMART is enough to get you a GS-7). Even a Master's would typically only get you a GS-9. The general schedule is set and mandated federally based on experience and education, so facility can't really deviate from these norms. Are you sure she didn't say your "full performance level" would be a GS-11? That basically means you would start at a GS-7, move to GS-9 the next year, and then an GS-11 the year after that.
As the above poster said: After graduation your Phase 2 salary is paid by your SF. During the internship you;ll get your normal monthly stipend plus maybe internship support payments if you qualify, but technically you aren't an employee of anyone and the funding isn't in exchange for your work, so yeah you could say its "unpaid"
[quote="salaryyyy"]I was talking to my POC at my SF (keep in mind she doesn't really know all that much about SMART) and she told me that their agency pays GS-11 out of college with your bachelors'.
My question is after I graduate who will pay my salary and, will it be my SF or will SMART continue to be the one who continues to pay me?
also, the internship is technically unpaid if you live close to SF right? (I would just continue getting paid the stipend)[/quote]
GS-11 is very high for a Bachelor's, typically a Bachelor's degree would get you GS-5 or assuming you did reasonable well at school, a GS-7 (The minimum GPA for SMART is enough to get you a GS-7). Even a Master's would typically only get you a GS-9. The general schedule is set and mandated federally based on experience and education, so facility can't really deviate from these norms. Are you sure she didn't say your "full performance level" would be a GS-11? That basically means you would start at a GS-7, move to GS-9 the next year, and then an GS-11 the year after that.
As the above poster said: After graduation your Phase 2 salary is paid by your SF. During the internship you;ll get your normal monthly stipend plus maybe internship support payments if you qualify, but technically you aren't an employee of anyone and the funding isn't in exchange for your work, so yeah you could say its "unpaid"