Jeff Neal, senior vice president, ICF International

The 65-year-old pay system isn't cutting it with a younger workforce.

Nearly 30 percent of the federal workforce is under age 40. But changing the 65- year-old performance management system. that pays those employees isn’t coming any time soon. Jeff Neal, senior vice president of ICF International and former chief human capital officer and the Department of Homeland Security, has ideas for a few alternatives to the General Schedule.

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