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Show TEST RUN, Dugway, Utah, Fri., Nov. 3, 1967 Your Civil Service Retirement System Thii it the twenty-sixt- h in a series of Question and Answer articles on the Federal Civil Service Retirement System. Questions answered are those most frequently asked about the System. Any other questions you may have will be answered by the Civilian Personnel Division, Employee Services Brandi. Q. HOW IS THE amount of an employees annuity determined? A. . The amount depends primarily upon an employee's length of service and his "high-5-" average salary. These two items are used in a formula which produces basic annuity. The basic annuity obtained by using the formula may then be reduced or for various reasons. Q. How is an employees length of service figured? A. ALL PERIODS of creditable service, except any fin1 which the employee owes a redeporit, are added together. The odd days in the total are dropped and die time (years and months) remaining is the length of service used in the annuity computation formula. For example: Periods of creditable Service Years Sept. 13, 1932, to Nov. 27 9, 1936. Nov. 4, 1937, to Oct. 14 11 12, 1952 Mar. 1, 1955, to Dec. 10 10 31, 1965 0 28 Total 22 36 Length of service is 29 years, 11 months, with 6 days being dropped. Q. Is there any limit to the length of service which may be credited? v A. No. Q. HOW IS AN employees high-5- " average salary figured? A. The high-- 5 average salary is the highest salary obtainable by averaging the rates of basic salary in effect during any five consecutive years of service, with each rate weighted by the time it was in effect. Here is an example of an average salary computation which covers the 1961, to December 31, 1965. Time rate Rate in was in effect Effect Year Month From 1161 to 111161 .0 five-ye- ar period from January 1, 10 111261 to 101362 101462 to 1464 1564 to 11 . . 123165 Total 11 0 . . . "High-- 5 Dugway Girl WHERE PEOPLE WORK More and more, people will be working for big business, in the years ahead. But small and medium-size- d business still take The Theta Chi chapter of 62 per cent of all workers. All Tri Delta sorority at the Unitold, some 5 million business en- versity of Utah recently announcmost ed that Miss Karin Creenhalgh terprises operate in U.S. of diem are small with average has joined their organization. Miss Greenhalgh, a 1967 employment of 13 people. graduate of Dugway High School, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. DESALTING PLANTS Wayne J. Greenhalgh, 23 East Water shortage in some 1st Avenue, Dugway. areas of U.S. and in other countries hastens building of desalini-zado- n DOMED CITY In 2067 we will be eating plants. 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