---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 430.312"
title: "5"
number: "430.312"
heading: "Using performance results."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/430.312"
---

# §430.312. Using performance results.

- (a) Agencies must use performance appraisals as a basis for adjusting pay, granting awards, retaining senior executives, and making other personnel decisions. Performance appraisals also will be a factor in assessing a senior executive's continuing development needs.
- (b) Agencies are required to provide appropriate incentives and recognition (including pay adjustments and performance awards under [part 534](/cfr/5/part534.md), [subpart D](/cfr/5/subpartD.md)) for excellence in performance.
- (c) A career executive may be removed from the SES for performance reasons, subject to the provisions of [part 359](/cfr/5/part359.md), [subpart E](/cfr/5/subpartE.md), as follows:
  - (1) An executive who receives an unsatisfactory annual summary rating must be reassigned or transferred within the SES, or removed from the SES;
  - (2) An executive who receives two unsatisfactory annual summary ratings in any 5-year period must be removed from the SES; and
  - (3) An executive who receives less than a fully successful annual summary rating twice in any 3-year period must be removed from the SES.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 80 FR 57694, Sept. 25, 2015, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 2301, chapter 43 and 5307(d).