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FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2013, file photo, just cut stacks of $100 bills make their way down the line at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas. Everyone knows the tech industry is big, but it can be challenging to get your head around just how big it is. At least until you look at it from a different angle and realize that Apple makes more money in a day than 2500 average U.S. households can expect to see in a year. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Agencies would have an easier time approving pay bonuses under OPM proposal

A new proposed rule from OPM aims to offload a bit of transactional work and let the agency focus more on governmentwide human capital policy.

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FILE - A USPS employee works outside post office in Wheeling, Ill., Dec. 3, 2021. A government watchdog said says the U.S. Postal Service's environmental evaluation used for purchases of next-generation delivery vehicles relied on some false assumptions. Jill Naamane from the Government Accountability Office told the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday that the analysis used to determine the mix of gas- and electric-vehicles overstated maintenance costs of electric vehicles and relied on gas prices that don’t reflect the current reality. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

USPS: 2,200 rural carriers won’t get regular paychecks on time because of timekeeping errors

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Federal pay falls even further behind the private sector

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Labor Dept launches USPS investigation following payroll error impacting more than 50K rural carriers

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‘Who’s going to run the prison?’ Union says loss of pay bonuses at BOP facility will cause major attrition

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(AP Photo/David Goldman)FILE - In this June 6, 2015, file photo, a customer, bottom, pays for goods while shopping at the Atlanta Farmers Market in Atlanta. Americans finally got a raise in 2015 after seven years of stagnating incomes, driven by big gains among the poorest households, according to information provided by the Census Bureau, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. Higher minimum wages in many states and tougher competition among businesses to fill jobs pushed up pay, while low inflation made those paychecks stretch further. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Paid administrative leave still plagues the federal workforce

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Pay agent renews calls for ‘major legislative reforms’ to federal pay

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FILE - A sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 6, 2020. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

New 25% retention bonuses at Bureau of Prisons only a ‘Band-Aid’ for larger staffing issues

The American Federation of Government Employees said OPM’s approval of retention bonuses for correctional officers is a positive step, but the union…

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How servicemembers can get the most out of their pay

Recent analysis from the Congressional Budget Office found that on average, “enlisted personnel receive cash compensation that is higher than that received…

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Government shutdown averted, but federal employees still wary as Congress shifts deadline to holiday season

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Federal employees see the extended shutdown deadline as a chance to set aside emergency funds, in case lawmakers can’t reach another 11th-hour deal just before Thanksgiving.

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