Pay and benefits comparability

The law requires the Postal Service to provide compensation and benefits to employees at a level comparable to the private sector. The Postal Service continues to pursue comparability for employees represented by labor organizations and management associations, seeking reductions where compensation or benefits are above private sector levels. For postal executives, however, the law significantly limits the Postal Service’s ability to achieve comparability with the private sector. The law does not provide the Postal Service with tools to compensate top postal executives at a level of top executives in similarly-sized companies.

Pursuant to Title 39 U.S.C. Section 3686(d), the Postal Service hereby reports that during calendar year 2010 the following persons received compensation in the amounts listed in excess of the rate for level 1 of Executive Schedule under section 5312 of title 5. The total compensation received by these individuals was well below comparable pay of executives in similarly-sized private sector companies.