The agreement gives the study four and a half months. The plan below puts the Committee's decisions early, runs the analysis while those decisions are tested, and leaves two weeks of float before May 1 for presidential review.
Confirm the criteria the Committee has adopted, the meeting rhythm, and who speaks for the Committee between meetings.
The Committee chooses the service credit, the tolerance, the adjustment target, treatment of market hires and B+ contracts, and whether to run the optional sex and race or ethnicity check. Each choice is written into a criteria memo.
One request to HR, field by field, with a template. Personal data travels by encrypted transfer only.
Tie to payroll totals, reconcile column and credited-year codes against personnel files where they disagree, normalize B+ contracts to base, and record every correction.
What the study is, what data it uses, and how the method works, before any results exist.
Rule-based expected salaries and the statistical model, with diagnostics, reviewed by a second analyst.
Each flagged case reviewed against its record; borderline cases listed for the Committee with the evidence for each side.
Total cost with salary and employer-paid benefits; three funding scenarios (full, two-year, three-year) and a priority order for partial funding; a briefing for Executive Leadership.
Method, data, findings, adjustments, costs, phasing, and at least one worked example, for Committee approval (RFP E.C.1.c).
The plain-language summary the agreement requires, and an individual statement for every member in the analysis.
Results explained; each appeal gets the member's full calculation and our written analysis within 10 business days.
Every file, script, model and template delivered to CSN in open formats so the FY29 study can rerun it.
Day names checked against the 2027 calendar. If the Committee's own calendar moves a meeting, the plan moves with it; the April 16 completion date and the May 1 recommendation date do not.