United States Periodically Listing Updates to Management (PLUM) Reporting

This dataset lists the incumbents in the Periodically Listing Updates to Management (PLUM) Reporting data by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

This covers positions submitted to the Plum Book published by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and House Committee on Government Reform alternately after each Presidential election, but is updated more frequently with current incumbents.

[The Plum Book] covers positions such as agency heads and their immediate subordinates, policy executives and advisors, and aides who report to these officials. The duties of many such positions may involve advocacy of Administration policies and programs and the incumbents usually have a close and confidential working relationship with the agency or other key officials.

The major categories of positions listed in United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions include:

• Executive Schedule and salary-equivalent positions paid at the rates established for levels I through V of the Executive Schedule;
• Senior Executive Service "General" positions and Senior Foreign Service positions;
• Schedule C positions excepted from the competitive service by the President, or by the Director, Office of Personnel Management, and other positions at the GS-14 and above level excepted from the competitive civil service by law, because of the confidential or policy-determining nature of the position duties.

Source: GovInfo