Obama makes 2015 federal pay raise official
Federal employees covered by the General Schedule and members of the military, among other feds, will get a 1 percent pay raise in January. Late Friday, Preside...
Federal employees under the General Schedule will receive a 1 percent pay increase in 2015. President Barack Obama signed an executive order Friday making the raise official.
This is the second year in a row feds have received a 1 percent pay increase, after three years of pay freezes from 2011-2013.
Most members of the military (both commissioned and enlisted) will also receive a 1 percent pay raise.
One percent raises will also go into effect for employees under the Foreign Service Schedule and the schedules for the Veterans Health Administration. The minimum salary for members of the Senior Executive Service will rise to $121,956, up 1 percent as well.
View the updated pay schedules and a synopsis of the pay increases from OPM.
Members of Congress will not get a raise this year. Nor will the Vice President and certain senior political appointees covered by the Executive Schedule, after those salaries were frozen as part of the 2015 spending package.
According to OPM, special base rates for law enforcement officers (GS 3-10) will also increase 1 percent, as will the minimum rate of basic pay for senior-level (SL), and scientific and professional (ST) employees.
The President’s executive order, however, keeps locality pay percentages at 2014 levels.
Pay increases for members of the military go into effect on Jan. 1, 2015, while all other pay rates take effect “on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2015,” according to the executive order.
Despite the pay raise, some federal employees have voiced frustration to Federal News Radio. They say the 1 percent raise does not do enough to keep up with inflation, including the average increase in health care costs feds expect to see this year.
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