Federal Salary Council

Biden issues pay plan with 2% federal pay raise recommendation

Biden’s 2% federal pay raise plan accounts for a 1.7% across-the-board increase, plus an average 0.3% locality pay adjustment, for most civilian employees.

Pay

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

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

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Federal pay falls even further behind the private sector

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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

The President’s Pay Agent issued an annual report, approving four new pay localities, while also noting the need for larger reforms to the federal compensation…

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

Pay

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.