locality pay

• Over 33,000 federal employees will see additional raises in fiscal 2024

  On today's Federal Newscast: The Defense Department is still the only federal department that's never earned a clean audit opinion. GOP lawmakers are trying to override a controversial cybersecurity regulation. And locality pay strikes again, as more than 33,000 federal employees will see additional raises in January.

  Federal Newscast

  November 17, 2023
• Federal pay falls even further behind the private sector

  Over the last year, federal sector wages fell 27.54% behind those in the private sector, a more than 3% jump in the pay gap since 2022.

  Pay

  November 14, 2023
• Pay agent renews calls for ‘major legislative reforms’ to federal pay

  The pay agent also announced upcoming plans to add two counties to the Seattle-Tacoma, Washington, locality pay area.

  Pay

  October 10, 2023
• Biden makes formal plans for 2024 federal pay raise

  President Biden has officially recommended a 5.2% federal pay raise for most civilian employees in 2024, including a 0.5% locality pay adjustment.

  Pay

  August 31, 2023
• Thousands of feds one step closer to a bigger raise in 2024

  Four new locality pay areas are close to final, after the Office of Personnel Management proposed rules to implement approved recommendations from the President's Pay Agent and Federal Salary Council.

  Pay

  June 28, 2023
• Initial plans to cap pay raise for hundreds of NSF employees gain major union pushback

  The American Federation of Government Employees raised concerns about initial plans to cap pay for hundreds of employees at the National Science Foundation, though NSF officials said no final decisions have been made.

  Pay

  January 31, 2023
• Democrats reintroduce bill to give feds 8.7% average pay raise next year

  In what has become tradition in recent years, a bicameral pair of Democrats proposed a bill to give most civilian federal employees an 8.7% pay raise in 2024.

  Pay

  January 26, 2023
• Another federal pension fix buried in the NDAA!

  Goodies keep surfacing in the nearly 4,000-page National Defense Authorization Act.

  Tom Temin Commentary

  January 12, 2023
• Hundreds of federal employees teleworking overseas set to receive pay bump under NDAA

  A provision in the 2023 NDAA will establish a locality pay equivalent for hundreds of civilian federal employees working under the Domestic Employees Teleworking Overseas (DETO) program.

  Pay

  January 09, 2023
• 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.

  Pay

  January 05, 2023
• 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 you get depends on where you work.

  Pay

  December 23, 2022
• A 4-minute guide to personal planning for 2023

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

  Tom Temin Commentary

  December 22, 2022
• Breaking down a few key recommendations from the Federal Salary Council

  Recommendations to expand pay localities, adjust requirements to add new localities and more from the Federal Salary Council.

  Pay

  August 12, 2022
• New locality-pay adjustments will impact thousands of federal workers

  In today's Federal Newscast, the IRS is getting billions more for enforcement, and some feds in the West and Pacific Northwest expect some locality pay to be in their future.

  Federal Newscast

  August 08, 2022