Press release: “The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has released a 2007 status report on performance-based pay systems within the federal government, which currently support over 298,000 federal employees. The report, Alternative Personnel Systems in the Federal Government – A Status Report on Demonstration Projects and Other Performance-Based Pay Systems (45 pages, PDF), includes information based on agency data, evaluations and studies, and it demonstrates performance-based pay systems “work.”