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The Commission regularly carries out comparisons of the net remuneration of the United Nations staff in grades P-1 through D-2 in New York with that of the United States federal civil service employees in comparable positions in Washington D.C.  The average percentage difference in the remuneration of the two civil services, adjusted for the cost-of-living differential between New York and Washington is the "margin".