Pay
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President Biden has officially recommended a 5.2% federal pay raise for most civilian employees in 2024, including a 0.5% locality pay adjustment.
August 31, 2023 -
Payroll errors at the Postal Service are leading to paycheck problems for its employees. The National Rural Letter Carriers Association said in a statement on its website Wednesday that it’s aware of an “egregious payroll…
August 31, 2023 -
An IRS watchdog is calling on the agency to make better use of pay incentives already available to stay on track with plans to build up its workforce.
August 22, 2023 -
The new supplemental pay rates are expected to help the NSA and other defense intelligence components compete with the private sector.
August 22, 2023 -
A grassroots network of rural carriers across the country is collecting signatures from their coworkers, in the hopes of joining a new, non-postal union.
August 21, 2023 -
To address some issues in the short-term, the Agriculture Department said NFC is on track to hire 80 new employees by January 2024.
August 16, 2023 -
The National Finance Center is technically deficient, suffers from poor internal and external communications, and provides sub-par customer experience, according to the findings of a new and widely reported study.
August 15, 2023 -
Although the new bill from Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) would not entirely solve pay compression, the Senior Executives Association said “any action is better than no action.”
August 08, 2023 -
Airport screeners and other Transportation Security Administration employees have received a major pay increase to bring their salaries on par with the rest of the federal civilian workforce.
July 27, 2023 -
Bill roundup: Committee OKs Border Patrol pay raise, CBP hiring, permanent federal firefighter raiseBills that would set higher pay for frontline Border Patrol agents, increase hiring, and make a temporary pay raise for federal firefighters battling wildfires are heading for a Senate floor vote.
July 19, 2023 -
With the calendar year half over, it's a good time to review your financial life. For people in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHB), open season isn't far off.
July 19, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The Department of Homeland Security will see a change in a key leadership position. The law that governs federal cybersecurity is getting a bipartisan overhaul. And it looks like federal firefighters finally landed a permanent pay raise.
July 13, 2023 -
Creating new locality pay areas while larger federal pay problems loom is “akin to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic,” the Senior Executives Association said. The organization is joining with others to call for a proposal from the Biden administration to fix pay compression.
July 11, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs will implement a long-awaited pay raise for its IT and cybersecurity workforce later this month, to bring employees’ salaries closer to what they could earn in the private sector.
July 10, 2023 -
The 2023 federal pay raise was the largest civilian employees have seen since 2002, and the largest military raise since 2003. But it's still not keeping up with private sector wage growth.
July 04, 2023