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Idea to send:	Topic Merit Pay for Employees in Oklahoma Content Many governmental entities across the nation have implemented merit pay for their employees. The concept behind merit pay is to operate on the market principles of rewarding good work with financial incentives. Many studies indicate that individuals are more inclined to increase their work productivity when there are rewards for such endeavors. Oklahoma currently has a merit protection system. Upon enactment in 1959, the act established two types of state employees: classified and unclassified. Classified employees are granted significant protection in exchange for ceding the right to participate in certain types of political activities. Unclassified employees, however, have fewer employment protections. The concept behind the system was that talented state employees could have a successful career with state agencies without fearing shifts in the political spectrum. Merit pay serves as an incentive for employees to work hard. If employees see that improvement is indeed rewarded, then productivity will arguably increase. Allowing merit pay reverses the archaic across-the-board raises that have dominated state government for so long. Merit pay could serve as an incentive for more state employees to pursue advanced educational degrees. If employees see that education is rewarded, then more employees might seek to pursue such endeavors in the hopes of having more employment options.