Pay & Benefits
Employee Groups Continue to Push for Bigger Pay Raise Following Biden Budget Release
Several organizations representing federal employees announce that they support a 3.2% pay increase next year, rather than the 2.7% boost proposed in the president’s fiscal 2022 budget.
Pay & Benefits
Biden Proposes 2.7% Raise for Feds in 2022, Restoring Pay Parity
Although it is unclear how plan breaks out between locality pay and across-the-board increases, the topline number matches the president's proposed pay raise for members of the military.
Management
Biden Signs Executive Order Requiring Federal Contractors to Pay a $15 Minimum Wage
White House says these employees are “critical” to the federal government’s operations.
Pay & Benefits
Feds Are Denied Step Increases In Just 1 of Every 1,000 Cases
Within-grade pay raises are "nearly automatic" rather than a true appraisal tool, board finds.
Pay & Benefits
3.2% Federal Pay Raise Bill Appears in Senate
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Pay & Benefits
GovExec Daily: Paying Feds More to Fix the Civil Service
Dr. James L. Perry joins the podcast to discuss how compensation reform should be a top priority for the Biden administration.
Pay & Benefits
Biden Records Message for Career Feds as He Calls for Boosting Their Minimum Wage
"You're the ones running the show," Biden tells civil servants.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers Propose 3.2% Raise for Feds in 2022
Democrats in both chambers of Congress have reintroduced legislation to boost basic pay by 2.2% across the board next year, along with an average 1% increase in locality pay.
Pay & Benefits
Trump Signs Order Formalizing 1% Pay Raise for Federal Civilians In 2021
The raise does not include a change in locality pay.
Workforce
GovExec Daily: Pay and Benefits Provisions in the Budget Deal
Erich Wagner joins the podcast to discuss how the federal workforce made out in the appropriations plan.
Pay & Benefits
No New Locality Pay Areas in 2022
The president’s pay agent declined to authorize a number of recommended changes to existing locality pay areas, overruling a federal advisory board.
Pay & Benefits
Spending Agreement Would Allow 1% Pay Raise, Fails to Ban Schedule F
Provision in the fiscal 2021 omnibus appropriations bill would give feds until the end of next year to repay payroll taxes deferred by the Trump administration from September through December.
Workforce
GovExec Daily: A Pay Freeze and Schedule F Update
Erich Wagner joins the podcast to discuss the latest in federal workforce news.
Pay & Benefits
White House Now Supports 2021 Pay Freeze, but Only for Civilians
The announcement marks a reversal for the Trump administration, which previously proposed a 1% across-the-board pay increase for all federal employees.
Pay & Benefits
Employee Groups Pan Senate Pay Freeze Plan, and More
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Pay & Benefits
Senate Republicans Propose 2021 Pay Freeze for Feds One Month Before Deadline to Avoid Shutdown
President Trump has proposed a 1% across-the-board raise for federal employees.
Pay & Benefits
Employee Groups Decry Hikes in What Typical Feds Will Pay in Heath Care Premiums, and More
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Pay & Benefits
For Feds, Net Worth Is More Important Than Income
There are many stories of federal employees who don’t have 6-figure incomes yet still manage to build considerable wealth.
Pay & Benefits
Biden Vows to Raise Federal Employees' Pay and Protect Benefits
In a questionnaire published by the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, the former vice president said he would abandon efforts by the Trump administration to force federal workers to contribute more to their defined benefit retirement accounts.
Pay & Benefits