Originally Posted by
SATTSO
The link you post is to an article not written by TSA. So why are you critical or TSA for the bad mathmatics, and not the author of this article?
On the one hand, it's possible that the TSA report just had the individual figures (17%, 32%, etc) and the reporter did a poor job of summing up.
On the other hand, gov't reports typically have an Executive Summary for the people who don't have time for the details. These phrases from the article sound like the headline sentences in such a summary, and they're attributed by the journalist to the report:
More than three-quarters of workers under the Transportation Security Administration's pay-for-performance plan soon will receive a performance-related raise, according to an internal report.
Seventy-six percent of employees under the agency's Performance Accountability and Standards System will receive pay boosts or bonuses, based on the quality of their work in 2009, the report said.
Nevertheless, I find it amazing that only 0.02% of the TSA workforce was incompetent enough miss out on bonuses completely.
Note that 0.02% of 45,000 is 9 people. Those are pretty low standards. We could probably count more than 9 people (by position/airport, if not by name) who have been called "bad apples" by Blogdad Bob this year alone.