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2023 Federal Pay Raise Update: Biggest Increase in 20 Years

09/06/2022
Government spending bill doesn’t mention federal pay raise – a strong indication that Congress supports the White House recommendation of 4.6%. The federal employee pay raise for 2023 has been expected to be 4.6% since the White House released its ... Read More

Quiz 20 on Federal Employee Pay and Benefits

08/26/2022
Our latest quiz covers the TSP, both the new window and beneficiary information, and also new locality pay recommendations. [ays_quiz id=”20″] Federal Employee Pay and Benefits

Quiz #19: Federal Pay Raise, Social Security, and Retirement

08/19/2022
Serving Those Who Serve’s latest quiz on federal employee retirement benefits [ays_quiz id=”19″] Federal Pay Raise, Social Security, and FERS Retirement

New Locality Recommendations: 16,000 Feds Could See Pay Boost

08/15/2022
Advisory council suggests adding new localities, adjusting some existing ones to encompass more federal workers, and loosening requirements for locality designation. A council that advises government officials on federal employee compensation has issued formal recommendations that, if implemented, would give ... Read More

2023 Federal Pay Raise Update: Senate’s Silence Supports Likelihood of 4.6%

08/11/2022
Government spending bill doesn’t mention federal pay raise – a strong indication that Congress supports the White House recommendation of 4.6%. Similar to the appropriations bill that the House of Representatives approved of earlier in the summer, the recent government ... Read More

Is the Federal Retirement Tsunami Almost Here?

08/11/2022
Looming since the 1990s, are retiring baby boomers in the Government about to cause the long-predicted retirement tsunami? Experts in public service began predicting a ‘retirement tsunami‘ back in the 1990s, predicting it would crash into the figurative beaches around ... Read More

Recently Passed Laws Help Veterans, VA Workers, and Federal Firefighters

08/08/2022
Legislation brings pay boosts for federal wildland firefighters and VA employees – plus “millions” of veterans now covered by Veterans Administration (VA) healthcare system. An infrastructure bill signed by the Biden Administration in November reformed the federal benefits offered to ... Read More

Locality and the Pay Caps for Federal Employee Salaries

08/02/2022
How pay caps depend on what locality a federal employee is based in, plus a bill to be proposed that might give capped salaries bigger annual pay raises. Non-executive federal employees, for the most part, are subjected to a salary ... Read More

2023 Federal Pay Raise Update: House Committee Endorses 4.6%

07/08/2022
White House’s recommendation of 4.6% federal pay raise for 2023 gets past House committee. Ready to Retire? FERS Benefits Webinar CSRS Benefits Webinar The government spending bill for fiscal year 2023 made it through the House Appropriation Committee on June ... Read More

TSA Employees Could See 30% Average Pay Raise

05/31/2022
The House passed a bill that would move TSA employees to ‘Title 5’ – giving most a significant raise. Complimentary Webinars: REGISTER HERE             A piece of proposed legislation, HR 903: The Right of TSA ... Read More