As a follow up to my email sent Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, I wanted to provide an update to employees in wildland firefighting positions about the current status of the erroneous annual salary documentation, Standard Form 50, issued over a week ago.

Human Resources Management and the National Finance Center (the  agency’s payroll service provider) have worked together to create a solution to issue new SF-50s that display the correct total annual salary amounts. Wildland firefighters will receive an email message when a corrected SF-50 has been uploaded to their electronic Official Personnel Folder; some employees may receive their notice as early as next week. The corrected SF-50 will reflect the total amount of wildland firefighter supplemental payments, up to a maximum of $20,000. Wildland firefighters who receive supplemental payments equal to 50% of their base pay will not receive a corrected SF-50 because their SF-50 is correct.

Please know that this error was not made deliberately, and it is realized it created confusion for those who received erroneous SF-50s.

Creating corrected SF-50s will take multiple weeks to complete and I appreciate your patience during this time. If anyone has questions about their pay, please call the Human Resources Management Contact Center at 1-877-372-7248, then press 2.

For more details on the permanent pay fix for wildland firefighters, please continue to refer to information provided by Deputy Chief Jaelith Hall-Rivera.