Defense
Agencies now have permanent buyout authority
Federal agencies can start offering buyouts of up to $25,000 to their employees, under a regulation issued this week.
Pay & Benefits
Pay lowdown
The devil is in the details of the administration’s plan for senior executive pay reform.
Defense
Regulation clears way for officers’ overtime pay
The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday loosened up a regulation that could have cost federal law enforcement officers thousands of dollars a year in lost pay—and lowered their retirement benefits.
Pay & Benefits
Counting beans
The math behind why your paychecks don't always jibe with the General Schedule pay scale.
Pay & Benefits
Bush backs 2 percent raise; seeks performance pay fund
The Bush administration plans to give federal employees a 2 percent across-the-board pay raise in 2004, and create a new $500 million fund agencies can use to raise the salaries of high performers.
Pay & Benefits
Administration seeks to raise SES pay cap
The Bush administration wants to raise a cap on federal executives’ salaries, administration officials said Friday.
Pay & Benefits
Senate backs omnibus spending bill with 4.1 percent raise
The Senate Thursday passed a $390 billion fiscal 2003 omnibus appropriations package that includes a 4.1 percent pay increase for civilian federal employees this year.
Pay & Benefits
Pay-for-performance
Exceptional employees need not fear pay-for-performance measures.
Pay & Benefits
Pay flexibility
Government reform advocates say federal pay systems need some room to stretch.
Management