Federal employees will receive pay raises averaging 5.2 percent — more in some high-salary areas — under an order President Biden signed Thursday that delivers the biggest increase to U.S. government workers since the Carter administration.
It’s 0.6 percentage points higher than last year’s increase, which itself was the highest in two decades, and will take effect in the first full pay period of 2024, starting Jan. 14 for most federal employees.
Most lawmakers have already left Washington for the holidays, signaling the end of the legislative year and allowing Biden to finalize the pay hike with Thursday’s executive order.
The raise is split into two parts — 4.7 percent paid across the board, with the remainder varying according to the local salaries of comparable private-sector jobs.
Federal officials last year approved pay bumps for four new high-expense areas: Fresno-Madera-Hanford in California; Reno-Fernley in Nevada; Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls in New York; and Spokane-Spokane Valley-Coeur d’Alene in Washington and Idaho.
Biden has also taken several steps to stamp out — and more recently, prevent — a policy ordered by former president Donald Trump that could have enabled him to fire tens of thousands of federal workers and replace them with loyalists.
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Federal employees will receive pay raises averaging 5.2 percent — more in some high-salary areas — under an order President Biden signed Thursday that delivers the biggest increase to U.S. government workers since the Carter administration.
It’s 0.6 percentage points higher than last year’s increase, which itself was the highest in two decades, and will take effect in the first full pay period of 2024, starting Jan. 14 for most federal employees.
Most lawmakers have already left Washington for the holidays, signaling the end of the legislative year and allowing Biden to finalize the pay hike with Thursday’s executive order.
The raise is split into two parts — 4.7 percent paid across the board, with the remainder varying according to the local salaries of comparable private-sector jobs.
Federal officials last year approved pay bumps for four new high-expense areas: Fresno-Madera-Hanford in California; Reno-Fernley in Nevada; Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls in New York; and Spokane-Spokane Valley-Coeur d’Alene in Washington and Idaho.
Biden has also taken several steps to stamp out — and more recently, prevent — a policy ordered by former president Donald Trump that could have enabled him to fire tens of thousands of federal workers and replace them with loyalists.
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