The 300-room Dollywood's DreamMore Resort will be situated on 100 acres adjacent to the Dollywood theme park, close to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
GS employees within the United States receive locality pay with the exception of employees in Alaska and Hawaii who receive COLA. There are 15 grades with 10 steps in each grade level, and generally, GS employees receive a pay raise the 1st pay period of each year. WG (Wage Grade) pay is determined by a survey conducted every 2 years to determine the prevailing rate for each type of work at each location.
Any rate that does not meet the definition of General Schedule or GS in 5 CFR 531.203 is a rate from a non-GS pay system. If an employee's highest previous rate is a non-GS hourly rate of pay, the agency must convert the hourly rate of pay to an annual rate of pay by multiplying the hourly rate of pay by 2,087. Pay rates that must be treated as if they were rates under a non-GS pay system: