Pay & Benefits

Pay raise moves forward

A 4.6 percent average pay raise for federal employees next year moved closer to reality last week, as the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the increase just one day after the full House voted for it.

Pay & Benefits

A dozen pin pricks

Twelve developments in federal pay and benefits this week.

Pay & Benefits

Bush again challenges 4.6 percent civilian pay raise

The Bush administration on Tuesday urged lawmakers to kill a measure giving federal workers a 4.6 percent average pay raise next year.

Pay & Benefits

New rule lets agencies give bonuses to blue-collar workers

Agencies can offer recruitment and relocation bonuses and retention allowances to wage-grade employees under a new rule published by the Office of Personnel Management in the Federal Register Friday.

Pay & Benefits

The limits of long-term care

Long-term care insurance won’t bring peace of mind to all federal workers and their families.

Pay & Benefits

TSP board fires, sues computer modernization firm

The Thrift Savings Plan board on Tuesday fired the contractor that has spent four years trying to modernize the retirement savings program’s computer system.

Pay & Benefits

Lawmaker to propose 4.6 percent pay raise

Federal employees would get a 4.6 percent average pay raise in 2002 under a measure that a lawmaker will introduce Tuesday.