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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 have a chance to propose new special salary rates, but budget uncertainty can cause hesitation

Agencies have until Oct. 13 to submit requests to OPM for new special salary rate approvals. But bigger budget concerns may discourage agencies from requesting…

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Federal contract workers’ calls for higher wages reveal deeper questions of contractor pay

Workforce Rights/Governance

FILE - People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors in the Medicare program. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share. And billions leftover to pay down federal deficits. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

After a summer break, Congress has a lot on its plate this fall

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Biden makes formal plans for 2024 federal pay raise

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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)

Data Dive

Federal pay raises have lagged private sector for more than a decade, data shows

Pay & Benefits

Thousands of feds one step closer to a bigger raise in 2024

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NTEU prioritizes bills to expand federal pay, benefits, but anticipates challenges ahead in Congress

Congress

Hundreds of employees rally behind 8.7% proposed federal pay raise

Unions

After pushback, NSF implements 4.6% average pay raise for all excepted service employees

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Initial plans to cap pay raise for hundreds of NSF employees gain major union pushback

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Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget in Washington, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP)

Democrats reintroduce bill to give feds 8.7% average pay raise next year

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How does locality pay actually work, and where did it come from?

Explaining the history of locality pay and how it affects federal employees on the General Schedule.

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Here are the actual pay raises federal employees will see in 2023, depending on their location

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Dec. 23 to make the average 4.6% federal pay raise official for civilian employees. But the exact raise…

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A 4-minute guide to personal planning for 2023

Tom Temin Commentary

From calibrating your TSP contribution to deciding whether to keep working … there’s a lot to think about at year-end.