Return to Article: Federal employees receive 1 percent locality pay for 2003

By Tanya N. Ballard tballard@govexec.com March 24, 2003
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    Once again those employees who are covered under the special IT pay schedule have been hurt by this decision to place this increase under the locality pay title. Employees in this special pay schedule have now for the second consecutive year lost a 1 percent salary increase. The pay schedule was created because of the great pay disparity between government IT workers and private sector in an effort to attract and retain these highly skilled workers. For those who received an 8 percent overall increase when the special pay table was instituted, that 8 percent increase is only worth 6 percent. At this rate, in a few years IT workers will not only be lagging greatly behind their private sector counterparts, they will also be lagging behind the other government workers who are not in special pay categories.

    GovExec.com reader Posted March 25, 2003 12:25 PM

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