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40354
What does a 60% salary, and 40% bonus actually mean under NSPS? Does this reflect a portion of the total NSPS pool or an actual percentage increase based on an employees salary?
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36650
NY & DC do have some of the highest cost of livings in the USA. But, in South Dakota our cost of living is also very high compared to the wages folks make. A 2-bedroom apartment in RC rents from $650 to $1100 per month. Our property and sales taxes are out of this world. Most of the folks in our town barely make minimum wage. Yet, the federal employees who live and work here do not receive a substantial amount to live in this area. Hence, most of our young folks and others leave the area as soon as they possibly can to find better wages somewhere else.
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35205
Japan has the highest cost of living in the world but we receive no cost of living pay or adjustments. We recieve a small post allowance thru the Dept. of State, which has shrunk every year since 1996. The U.S. DoD civilians working and living abroad for the military services have been left out. What gives?
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35183
I'll be grateful to receive whatever is expected. However, the cost-of-living are extremely high in both NY and DC areas. Thank you in advance for more incentives.
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35004
Concerning pay for the DC area. It is time to move the vast majority of federal employees to the field where they belong. That would save a lot of money.
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34998
The cost of living in Flagstaff AZ is more than living in Phoenix or some other big cities. I think an adjustment should be made for the Flagstaff area to match.
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34931
I can understand how the locality pay works for the most part and agree with the philosophy. However, the locality pay has NOT been updated appropriately. The Ausitn & San Antio area is in the category of the rest of the US. But the businesses and this area itself has become one of the most desired and fasted growing all around for businesses and families. The locality pay should be closer to Houston's.
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34929
I must agree with Jeff. It would be good if they could change the base formula for CSRS employees (which his reference to 56% says he is), especially for those whose pay is below management levels. I have saved as much sick leave as I could to add to my pension, but am still concerned that in the Boston area I will need to find another job, or work a few more years, to survive on a GS-11 pension.
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34899
I live in the Los Angeles area. I'm a GS 12, step 5 (about $80k), am single, and I CANNOT afford to buy a house. It's very hard to save when most of my paycheck goes to paying rent. Of course I can find cheaper places to rent but that will compromise my safety since that means moving to the 'hood. Well, at least the weather is nice.
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34881
While I greatly appreciate any kind of pay raise, I have to wonder why the cost of living increases don't include things like, hmmmmm ENERGY, or HOUSING in the formulations. Those items are the biggest drain on any family budget, but aren't taken into account when the cost of living is being calculated, if I understand it correctly. Isn't that odd?????
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34867
Living in NJ here, everything is expensive including sale tax, gasoline and groceries. With that 2.5% increase for 2007 was just like putting a piece of salt into the ocean.
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34785
I'm grateful for anything I get it is better than not getting anything and there are plenty in the private sector who have not seen a raise in years. However I would like the unions and others in government to raise the 56.6% for thirty years of service to 60% for thirty years, but of course that is just wishful thinking.
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34781
Cost of living increases should also help to cope with the increased cost to live in certain areas and not just the pay inequity. In Southern California it is hard to recruit and keep the younger people because they cannot afford to live here unless both spouses work. The median price for a house is over $600K in our area. Apartments and rentals run over $1000/month. Try that on entry level salaries. Of course the gasoline prices here are some of the highest due to the "special formulation" to combat pollution.
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34770
Assuming the 2.5% across the board as discussed in the opening paragraph in the column, with the .5 to 1 percent added on based on your locality, how much will the special salary table rates increase (specifically 999B) because the people who are paid IAW special salary tables do not get locality pay?
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34765
That's all well and good....unless you happen to be a manager with the IRS. What Congress and the President decide on has little to do with what IRS managers see, in the form of either an annual pay raise, or a longevity increase, the latter of which was abololished at the end of 2006. The only folks in the IRS who see the full raise, are those still under the General Schedule.
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34763
Imagine being misled or even lied to by your management / government? This would never happen in America, Oh wait... now I'm awake must have been dreaming. If the feds are worried about boomer's retiring and the huge brain drain / loss of institutional knowledge, just wait. NSPS is going to cause havoc and those at the top will be out of office and it will be someone else's mess to fix.
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34758
What are the prospects for raising the ceiling for pay for people at the top end of the GS scale?
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34753
Thanks to Mr. England, the unluckly ones in NSPS will not only see a large chunk of their COLA placed in the paypool but IF they get it via paid out shares, it will likely be distributed as a bonus rather than a raise which means no TSP matching, future COLA's and high 3 factoring. Wonder why DOD folks are so disgruntled these days?
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34750
I'm apparently one of the few who are grateful for the small raise we get each year. My husband works in the private sector. For 16 years he worked for a company that didn't pay sick leave, vacation time, or holiday pay. So if he didn't work, he didn't get paid. He got good insurance coverage for many years but they dropped that, without telling us. He didn't get a raise the last 10 years he was there. I can't make in the private sector what I get paid here. If you can make more in the private sector, why do you stay with the Government? I'll take the 3% or whatever we happen to get, and be happy that we got a raise at all.
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34746
The "complexity" formulas that are used to determine grade are intentionally unfair to ensure inflated grade levels in Washington D.C. There isn't anyone in civil service who isn't well aware that if they were to take the same job in Washington, they would be one or two pay grades higher. The locality pay is allegedly intended to compensate for difficulty in recruiting, not a cost of living adjustment. Giving a greater boost to the Washington D.C. locality pay is just another item of proof that the whole system is slanted in favor of that area. After all, how difficult can it be to recruit people for jobs with already inflated pay grades.
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34744
The senior GS15s and Senior Managers at the top of the pay scale still are negatively impacted by current pay setting laws. As our more junior (in grade and step level) get full percentage increases, we are still capped by SES Level 1 salary levels. This is an inequity that needs address in current economic times (SF, DC, and NY)
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34742
The Civilian pay raise is not "across the board". Employees under NSPS are being penalized by only receiving 1.5 with the remaining 2 percent going into the "pay pool" to be divided among the best performers. This is not what was told to us when we attended unsatisfactory training back in January.
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34741
Pay Equality my eye. That was what I was told when we converted to NSPS with the first spiral. However, the powers to be (i.e. upper level SES management) went out over a number of counties and factored that in to the "Pay Equality" and I'm still nowhere near being paid what the private sector is paying a person working the same job. In addition, our locality pay was discontinued approximately two years ago so I guess that puts me in the "Rest of U.S." category. Still, what's the sense in receiving a "Pay Equality" raise when half of that raise goes to the NSPS Pay Pool? You have to score a 4.51 or better on your evaluation to even come close to receiving your full raise. I'm sure I'll get slammed as a disgruntled employee or be labeled as "NOT A TEAM PLAYER" for this. Well, that's the story of my life. I come to work, do my job and leave. What more do they want?
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34735
It is interesting that the Washington DC pay scale is applied to areas that are economically depressed (York County, PA). It may behove the Federal Salary Council to evaluate how locality pay is allocated and consider focusing it on ZIP Codes rather than larger geographic ares. The current method is costing the taxpayer by allowing for salaries that are not in sync with the local economy.
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34732
How much of an increase can civil service retirees expect to see?
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34731
What about the largest area of Federal Employees "The Rest of the US"? What do the average raises amount to in this formula? We know New York, Washington, and San Francisco are the most important areas, but can we get a little love here?
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