Pay

  • Host Mike Causey will talk about the Thrift Savings Plan with Tom Trabucco, director of external affairs for Federal Retirment Thrift Investment Board. Federal Times Reporters Stephen Losey and Sean Reilly also join the show to discuss how Congress is changing your federal benefits package. February 22, 2012

    February 22, 2012
  • Congress hit future federal workers with a new higher pension tax. For current workers, there is no change but that could have been a warning shot across the bow, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

    February 22, 2012
  • Federal workers who have been paying attention to the various plans to have them finance unemployment benefits, highways and tax cuts must be confused, if not in a state of shock, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. Could it be that the only people who are happy are those who haven\'t been paying attention?

    February 17, 2012
  • Over 20 bills affecting federal employees\' pay, benefits, and pensions have been introduced by members of Congress in the past year. Federal employees tell Federal News Radio those are the kinds of things directly affecting their morale and motivation. What does Congress think about that? Federal News Radio asks both Republicans and Democrats as part of our series, \"Managing Morale.\"

    February 16, 2012
  • Federal Times Editor Steve Watkins, Senior Writer Sean Reilly,and NARFE Legislative Director Julie Tagen will discuss how government employees will be affected by proposed cuts to the federal budget. February 15, 2012

    February 15, 2012
  • When you think of federal workers, the term \"swinger\' isn\'t the first thing that pops into your head. But after some of the changes politicians want to make, anything could happen.

    February 15, 2012
  • When it comes to figuring out whether federal workers are overpaid or underpaid both sides need to remember the basic carpenters rule: Measure twice, cut once. How come? Sometimes when doing complex math even the experts get it wrong, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says — even rocket scientists.

    February 15, 2012
  • The personnel proposals included in the 2013 Defense Department budget include hikes to healthcare fees, cutbacks in both uniformed and civilian personnel. DoD also plans to save money through continued efficiencies and plans to increase the acquisition workforce.

    February 13, 2012
  • President Obama\'s fiscal 2013 budget request released today ends the two-year federal pay freeze but increases contributions feds will have to make toward their retirement benefits.

    February 13, 2012
  • White-collar federal workers on average are either overpaid by about 16 percent or paid an average of 26.3 percent less compared to their private-sector counterparts. Those numbers confirm that there is a pay gap. But that\'s about it, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. Could they both be right? Or wrong?

    February 13, 2012
  • American Federation of Government Employees President Jacque Simon will discuss whether your federal pay and benefits will be cut this year. February 8, 2012

    February 08, 2012
  • A federal worker, who boxed in college and the Army, says in the last two years he\'s gone from a happy-go-lucky fed to feeling like he\'s fighting two opponents and the referee, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey say. So can this get any worse? Short answer, maybe.

    February 08, 2012
  • No matter what condition your hair is in, the vast majority of federal workers get a new wig every one, two or three years. But that may be about to change, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

    February 07, 2012
  • Federal workers are considered lucky that the White House wants them to have a 0.5 percent raise next January. But what would G-men and women of your Mom or Dad\'s era have said to a pay raise of that — new word — minatude, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wonders.

    February 06, 2012