effectiveness in government may be as old as government itself, and performance pay plans provide public managers with the opportunity to instill greater accountability and also a more generous rewards system into their organiza¬tions. However, performance pay plans will only experience widespread adoption when a large enough number of success stories allows us to understand the intricacies of implementation. This accumulation of data and knowledge could represent a tipping point that would help institu¬tionalize the concept of performance pay in the public sector.