Pay & Benefits

Compressed pay

Senior executives feel the squeeze on their annual salaries.

Defense

Bush signs record military spending bill

Calling it a down payment in the global war on terrorism, President Bush signed the $317 billion fiscal 2002 Defense spending bill, which includes an average 6.9 percent military pay raise, at a Pentagon ceremony Thursday.

Tech

E-gov outpaces e-commerce in new survey

More than one-half of surveyed adults with access to the Internet visited federal, state or local government Web sites in 2001, according to a report released Wednesday.