The problems with Phoenix go well beyond pay.  It's tax slip season, and i am hearing many tales of innacuracy.  One employee I spoke with who earns roughly 60K had only $800 reported in federal income tax.

One of my slips has been published and retracted twice already.

This kind of programming is dirt simple; a first year college student could handle it easily since it is simple arithmetic from a defined data model.

It's true that the pay system for the public service has convoluted business rules.  But I simply do not understand how the systems integrators got it so wrong.