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Federal pay rates are falling nearly 25% short of the private sector

Most feds are likely to see a 2% federal pay raise in January. But in light of new wage data, a federal union is calling for a bigger raise in 2025.

Pay

Federal pay falls even further behind the private sector

Agency Oversight

Immigration forms are growing as fast as immigration

Workforce

Calls to ban use of salary history reveal deeper issues in federal pay system

Pay

Advocacy groups raise concerns about federal pay system amid growing wage gap

Of Consuming Interest

The FDA's gag rule on off-label treatments

Congress

Postal Service will run out of cash by 2024 without congressional reform

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Management

More robust personnel oversight could be solution to Border Patrol termination problem

James Lankford

Congress

How Sen. Lankford wants to resolve and prevent ‘Federal Fumbles’

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Pay

Exclusive Federal employees take issue with Cato's public-private wage gap study

Jeff Neal

Commentary

The truth about federal pay

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Latest study on federal compensation puts public, private pay gap at widest margin yet

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, talks to the committee's ranking member Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 11, 2017, during the committee's confirmation hearing for Navy Secretary nominee Richard Spencer. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

DoD Reporter's Notebook

McCain, Reed float trial balloon for another BRAC round

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Federal Drive

David Bier: DHS E-verify system needs a makeover

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2013 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, dawn arrives at the now closed Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility for al-Qaida and Taliban militants who were captured after the Sept. 11 attacks at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. A former al-Qaida militant who gained fame with the publication of a diary about life at Guantanamo Bay has been approved for release from the detention center at the U.S. base in Cuba, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Wednesday, July 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

BRAC

DoD tries to calm Congress over new BRAC request

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2013 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, dawn arrives at the now closed Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility for al-Qaida and Taliban militants who were captured after the Sept. 11 attacks, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The Pentagon announced Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, that fifteen prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were released to the United Arab Emirates in the single largest transfer of detainees during the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Defense

BRAC finds some stable ground in 2017

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Technology

Clinton's tech policy pledges smarter, newer, more open government

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Budget

The fiscal chopping block: How programs are saved, sliced in the federal budget

Jeff Neal

Commentary

Feds are overpaid — or not: Part II

Deputy Labor Secretary Chris Lu holds the 2015 Management Excellence Award with winner Edward Hugler, the deputy assistant secretary for administration and management. Hugler is known as "Mr. Fix-It" at the department. When the company that provided financial services to the department went bankrupt, Hugler oversaw efforts to take the system in house and keep it running.

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Don't let the Cato study get you down; my favorite Sammies winner

Commentary

Feds are overpaid — or not

Tom Temin Commentary

Let's add salary to sex, religion and politics

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Pay

Federal workers paid too well to complain, Cato study finds