The Professional Office Personnel Development Program (POPDP) is a comprehensive training program offered to improve the skills and increase the productivity of full and part-time office personnel.

POPDP offers compensation for POPDP courses taken by full-time employees after regular working hours. Part-time employees will not be compensated for completing POPDP courses; however, course credit will be banked until the employee becomes full-time.

Office employees participating in POPDP must complete four core courses and up to a maximum of 18 elective courses. Employees will receive and increase of $1.25 per day in the daily rate of pay after the satisfactory completion of four core courses. Two core courses (Multi-Cultural Training & Computer Literacy) are mandatory. Two elective courses are selected by the participating employee in the area of work assignment. These core courses must be satisfactorily completed before payment is made for any elective course.

Employees will receive an additional $.20 per day in their daily rate of pay after the satisfactory completion of each additional elective course, up to a maximum of 18 courses. Satisfactory completion of a core or elective course is determined by the evaluation procedures described in the component design.

POPDP Course Pay Chart