Feds, How short was your paycheck?

[Anonymous]

Mine was $1100 less. This surprises me because it's the first paycheck that includes my recent step increase. I knew the check would be less, but it was significantly less. I am grateful that I have decent savings.

[Anonymous]

Mine was a little less than 1/3 short. Assuming they took all my regular deductions and only paid me for 7 of 10 days.

[Anonymous]

Mine will be around 70% of normal. I max out the TSP at $904/pp but apparently that will be prorated at 70% as well.

[Anonymous]

Mine was about 60% of normal. I expected lower, but if TSP contributions are prorated I guess that explains it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine will be around 70% of normal. I max out the TSP at $904/pp but apparently that will be prorated at 70% as well.

I do the same but thought the guidance was that if you have a fixed dollar contribution the full amount will be deducted. It’s only prorated if you have a percentage contribution.

[Anonymous]

Mine was 600 was supposed to be 2k so…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine was $1100 less. This surprises me because it's the first paycheck that includes my recent step increase. I knew the check would be less, but it was significantly less. I am grateful that I have decent savings.

That’s really not helpful without context on what your normal salary is.

My normal take home is ~4000 and I’m expecting this check to be 1600-1800 short.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine was $1100 less. This surprises me because it's the first paycheck that includes my recent step increase. I knew the check would be less, but it was significantly less. I am grateful that I have decent savings.

That’s really not helpful without context on what your normal salary is.

My normal take home is ~4000 and I’m expecting this check to be 1600-1800 short.

Meant to say expect the total check to be ~1600-1800.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine was $1100 less. This surprises me because it's the first paycheck that includes my recent step increase. I knew the check would be less, but it was significantly less. I am grateful that I have decent savings.

That’s really not helpful without context on what your normal salary is.

My normal take home is ~4000 and I’m expecting this check to be 1600-1800 short.

That's the thing. I didn't get to see what a regular check would look like because the furlough check coincided with the step increase check. It's almost like I didn't get the step. My paystub won't hit NFC until tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Why are you getting partial paychecks? Just because your agency had funds leftover from last fiscal year?
I'm active duty and we will miss our entire bi-monthly paycheck on the 15th if the government doesn't open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you getting partial paychecks? Just because your agency had funds leftover from last fiscal year?
I'm active duty and we will miss our entire bi-monthly paycheck on the 15th if the government doesn't open.

We have different payroll calendars. Our pay period ended on October 3 so the partial paycheck we got this week included funding through 9/30, then no pay for the next 3 days. We don't get a paycheck next week. The following week will be $0.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine was $1100 less. This surprises me because it's the first paycheck that includes my recent step increase. I knew the check would be less, but it was significantly less. I am grateful that I have decent savings.

That’s really not helpful without context on what your normal salary is.

My normal take home is ~4000 and I’m expecting this check to be 1600-1800 short.

That's the thing. I didn't get to see what a regular check would look like because the furlough check coincided with the step increase check. It's almost like I didn't get the step. My paystub won't hit NFC until tomorrow.

Okay, but a step increase is about 3-5k per year depending on your grade, which would net maybe a $100 bump per paycheck at most. It’s not going to significantly compensate for the 30% cut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine will be around 70% of normal. I max out the TSP at $904/pp but apparently that will be prorated at 70% as well.

I do the same but thought the guidance was that if you have a fixed dollar contribution the full amount will be deducted. It’s only prorated if you have a percentage contribution.

I haven't seen an actual earnings and leave statement yet (usually it would be available either yesterday or the day before, but it's now apparently delayed until Tuesday), but my agency sent an email yesterday in which they specifically stated a fixed dollar TSP contribution would be done at 70% instead.

[Anonymous]

Wait are we supposed to stop TSP contributions or do they automatically stop when our paychecks stop?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine was a little less than 1/3 short. Assuming they took all my regular deductions and only paid me for 7 of 10 days.

This is what my agency said would happen—all deductions but 7/10 of pay.