---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 531.243"
title: "5"
number: "531.243"
heading: "Promotion of a GM employee."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/531.243"
---

# §531.243. Promotion of a GM employee.

- (a) Upon promotion, an employee's status as a GM employee ends, as provided in [§ 531.241(b)](/cfr/5/531.241.md?p=b).
- (b) When an employee loses status as a GM employee because of a temporary promotion and is returned to the lower grade upon expiration or termination of the temporary promotion under [§ 531.215(c)(1)](/cfr/5/531.215.md?p=c-1), he or she will be deemed to have been placed at the lowest step rate that equals or exceeds the employee's former GS rate (as a GM employee) on the effective date of the temporary promotion, before applying any other step increases based on his or her service during the temporary promotion.
- (c) A GM employee's GS rate is used as the existing rate of pay in applying the promotion rule in [§ 531.214](/cfr/5/531.214.md). A GM employee's off-step GS rate in the grade before promotion is not converted to a GS step rate in applying the promotion rule, but the employee must be placed on a GS step rate in the post-promotion grade.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 70 FR 31291, May 31, 2005, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5115, 5307, and 5338; sec. 4 of Public Law 103-89, 107 Stat. 981; and E.O. 12748, 56 FR 4521, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 316; Subpart B also issued under 5 U.S.C. 5303(g), 5305, 5333, 5334(a) and (b), and 7701(b)(2); Subpart D also issued under 5 U.S.C. 5335 and 7701(b)(2); Subpart E also issued under 5 U.S.C. 5336; Subpart F also issued under 5 U.S.C. 5304, 5305, and 5941(a); E.O. 12883, 58 FR 63281, 3 CFR, 1993 Comp., p. 682; and E.O. 13106, 63 FR 68151, 3 CFR, 1998 Comp., p. 224.