Federal Salary Council

Former senior officials join rising calls for an alternative to Schedule F

Along with warning of what they said would be a dangerous return of Schedule F, the group called on Congress to enact reforms to modernize the civil service.

Workforce

As agencies face budget uncertainty, Democrats propose a 7.4% pay raise for feds

Pay

Explainer

Dispelling some confusion around the new locality pay areas

Pay

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Federal pay falls even further behind the private sector

Pay

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Pay agent renews calls for ‘major legislative reforms’ to federal pay

Pay

IRS needs to use pay incentives more to keep up with hiring goals, watchdog warns

Hiring/Retention

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

Pay

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

Congress

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

Pay

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

Pay

Pay agent calls for ‘major reforms’ to federal pay system, approves four new pay localities

Pay

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

DOJ GEN’s call to OPM to fully ban the use of salary history in federal hiring and pay-setting unearths larger issues with the federal pay system as a whole.

Workforce

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

The Federal Salary Council reported that federal pay fell further behind private sector pay, from a pay gap of 22.47% in 2021 to 24.09% in 2022.

Pay

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New data shows feds’ pay is lagging even more behind private sector counterparts

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, federal employees are seeing a growing gap in salary compared with the private sector.