Pay & Benefits

Two Raises

OPM loosens restrictions to allow Senior Executive Service members to get more than one pay raise this year.

Pay & Benefits

Capped

Federal Law Enforcement officers try again to ease pay compression in their top ranks.

Pay & Benefits

Senior executives may wait months for new pay rates to kick in

It may take several months for members of the Senior Executive Service to benefit from increased pay rates authorized by Congress last fall.

Pay & Benefits

The End Is Near

Details about the Homeland Security Department’s new personnel system are forthcoming, officials say.

Pay & Benefits

TSP funds close on a high note in 2003

Pay & Benefits

Bush sets 2004 pay raise at 2 percent

President Bush issued an executive order on Dec. 30 formally implementing a 2 percent civil service pay raise in 2004, but Congress is poised to grant a significantly higher increase in the pending fiscal 2004 omnibus budget bill.

Pay & Benefits

Holiday Hangovers

The things Congress didn’t do for federal employees in 2003.

Pay & Benefits

Overtime pay cap raised for supervisors

High-ranking General Schedule employees who work overtime have won a long battle to increase their compensation, thanks to a provision in the 2004 Defense Authorization Act.

Pay & Benefits

Raising the Roof

Senior Executive Service members will get some salary stretching room in 2004.