Return to Article: President Bush changes locality pay formula
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34390
I have worked for the Federal Gov't for 22 years and this actually makes my blood boil. I am in Georgia and our expenses are getting out of control--granted SF and NY are bigger but pleazzzzzzeeeeeeee we need to keep up with this ecomony!!
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20375
Two years ago, the locality pay for our GS counterparts was changed from "Rest of US" to NYC, and only for the GS employees. This was under the basis that more GS's were coming from the NYC area which justified our GS personnel a minimum of a 10 percent pay increase, while the WG's received 3.1 percent. They say locality pay is based on where you live but that's difficult to understand when you receive a 3.1 percent increase and the guy who lives next door to you receives a 13 percent increase.
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19991
This is such a load. First of all locality pay is joke. I live in West Central Florida, the Tampa Bay area to be exact. Tampa is grouped in "Rest of US" but yet places like Detroit get higher locality. I grew up in South Eastern Michigan. My $225,000 house in this area (out in the "country" because I can't actually afford a decent house near the base) is a $120,000 house in Michigan. How is this correct? The cost of living in Tampa kills Detroit, but yet they get almost double the locality pay.
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19981
I don't understand what is going on. Boston is one of the most expensive places in America to live. How can this go on? Why do I feel like every time I turn around, the government that I work so hard for is trying to stick it right in my back! Over 13 years in the military and seven now as a federal employee and nothing has changed if you work for this government. They want you to work more and get paid less for the amount of work that you do, but yet the politicians we elect vote themselves large pay raises and never come to work, or worse yet, diddle with the young pages that work for them. It makes me sick!
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19970
So, wouldn't this have been good to know before the BRAC decisions were made. It seems the future civilian payroll burden in the high cost of living areas versus Rest of U.S. could have made significant difference in projecting future costs of operating bases in different areas.
Frustrated
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19961
In October, the Federal Salary Council, an independent body of salary experts, employee representatives and federal officials that usually makes recommendations on the allocation of locality pay, chose to leave it up to the president.
Well that's just great! What do we need these experts for? If they are just going to turn it over to the president?
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19958
If the President feels it's necessary to give the folks in places like New York, San Francisco and Washington extra money, that's fine and dandy, but don't do it at the expense of the rest of us.
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19956
I would like to know why Congress can give themselves such huge raises, but give us "peons" pittance! I think the American people should be able to vote on the raises of their senators and representatives. The salaries some of them receive are absolutely ridiculous!
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19943
I think I may be able to understand the concept of equal work for equal pay being changed to equal work for equal lifestyle. Well, kinda. People should not be penalized for heeding the call of their government's need and responding, in a high cost of living area.
With the budget being slim, we who live in lower cost of living areas (please read: less expensive quality of life) may suffer a tad to help our brethren, as long as it's for a good cause.
I just hope that the renowned Cato institute (and the infamous Mr. Edwards, please see: "Pay Gap: A Different Take") are keeping track of our sacrifices. I don't want to hear about that "average federal worker earned $100,178 in 2004" again because he sure doesn't work here in the "Rest of U.S."!
Tip off.
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19936
I like this! We get a measly 2.2 percent or 2.7 percent pay hike! How much did fuel rise? How much has shipping of goods risen? How much more are you paying at the grocery store? How much has my medical increased? How far behind the private sector has the federal employee been for years? Pay for performance, recruiting of younger workforce, retiring of the knowledge base. Am I the only one to see these things? Go ahead, lie to the people, tell them how great it is to be a ...
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19915
Why not give those responsible for determining the discrepancy between the wages of private industry and the feds the authority to set the wage adjustments and keep politics out of it? Look at the fiasco created by the former president quelling a just raise that was due under the FEPCA, in a time of declared financial prosperity and the lack of a national emergency as required by this law. Ethically, he had nothing preventing the full amount as set by the government's wage study. And now that we are in national strife and financial difficulties, due to the conflict in Iraq, there is action being taken in the other direction to increase wages. For all the work and good intentions put into this law, its abuse has effectively muted a sense of fair play in the wage setting authority.
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19909
This was just the lawmakers' way of showing the troops in Iraq how much they really appreciate them. 2.7 percent for the civilians at home and 2.2 percent for the men and women fighting the war. Right on course.
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19907
And we wonder why we go to the private sector? Could this be a conspiracy so that all college grads and current job-seekers apply with private agencies to bring more money to shareholders?
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19894
Thank you, administration, for your continued support of the federal workforce. 1.81 percent is just overwhelming! It boggles the mind to even consider how I will spend all of it!
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19888
Here we go again. Congress cannot seem to get its job done. It's bad enough that we are nearly three months into a continuing resolution, but now they can't make up their minds about our pay increase. Another retroactive pay increase? By the time they decide and we get it, it will be nearly fiscal 2008. Now our cost of living (which isn't enough) won't even be here in time to cover our increases (Dental/Vision/FEHB). It's like getting a pay decrease instead. If we did our jobs as ineffectively as Congress, none of us would be employed.
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