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Get a Life!: The pay raise dilemma

By Judy Welles
Published on October 9, 2007 - 02:57 PM

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Civilian and military employees are on track to receive 3.5 percent salary increases in 2008. The full House and Senate Appropriations Committees have approved the 3.5 percent figure for both groups of employees. Such a raise would be 0.5 percentage point higher than that proposed and still supported by the White House. This would be a welcome change since the 2007 pay raise – 1.7 percent for the bulk of federal employees -- was the lowest in nearly 20 years Federal employees now make an average of 23 percent less in salaries than their counterparts in the private sector, according to the Federal Salary Council (FSC). Locality pay -- based on employment costs in 32 separate pay areas across the country and a catch-all area known as the ‘Rest of U.S.’-- is added to employees’ base pay for those with a GS or General Schedule rating. Federal workers in locations outside of the locality pay areas – and many are -- do not get the additional salary boost. The FSC, as it has done in the past, recommended that funds allocated for locality pay increases be distributed so that locations with the largest pay gaps receive the largest increases. Others have recommended that the locality pay areas be extended to include more federal workers in outlying locations. Still others suggest that everyone get the same percent of locality pay increase to level the playing field for recruitment. What do you think should be done?

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The federal goverment spends a good deal of money on requitment and training. They now need to figure a way to keep these employees and a yearly raise is always a good thing and fair if it is across the board.

Posted by BurnsCPACITPCFE on October 12, 2007 - 09:06 AM

Federal employees now make an average of 23 percent less in salaries than their counterparts in the private sector, according to the Federal Salary Council (FSC), yet this is nothing new. Fed Gov fails to at least match COLA with statistics provided by reliable and official sources. COLA alone cannot be evaluated as "incentive pay" when it is definitely insufficient compared to civilian counterparts. Would love to see a retroactive requirement to meet those counterpart pay levels, for all DoN/DoD personnel for the past 20 years, or since original date of service.

Posted by DoNServer on October 13, 2007 - 12:16 PM

Just wait until NSPS kicks in! What do you think are the chances that you will even get your COLA due you? Be aware that many DODers are falling under the new NSPS system shortly, if not already. Short team gains will most likely be okay... but as soon as NSPS is fully established we will see a nightmare of a system full of inequalities similar to those 'good old days' of management discretion! Why has DHS all but abandoned NSPS? Why isn't DOD listening? If this affects you, I urge everyone to write their congress-person and urge their vote AGAINST NSPS!

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