Federal Governmnet paycheck

[Anonymous]

If I received a merit increase shouldn't I see it in my paycheck today?

[Anonymous]

anyone?

[Anonymous]

Maybe the increase in taxes minimized it? Did you ask payroll at your office?

[Anonymous]

Does your check detail your hourly wage? Thats an easy way to tell if your increase is in your check.

Not sure how fed works but many corps out there detail your hourly rate, even if you're a salaried employee.

[Anonymous]

It does show my hourly rate and that didn't change. I am hoping that maybe it doesn't show up until the next paycheck, but I don't see why it would since this is the first paycheck of the new year. Thanks for the suggestions though. I'll call HR on Tuesday.

[Anonymous]

What is the period for which you were paid? For example my company pays on the 10th for the last two weeks of the previous month. So a Jan 1 increase doesn't show up until the check on the 25 which is for work performed the first two weeks of January.

[Anonymous]

Did you get a paycheck today? Count yourself lucky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you get a paycheck today? Count yourself lucky.

Yes, god forbid an employed person wants to make sure her employer is paying her appropriately when you don't have a job.

[Anonymous]

What about the COLA? Has that been approved and if so when does that kick in?

[Anonymous]

No COLA for 2013 currently in the works. My merit pay increases are not based on the calendar year but my evaluation cycle so I don't know..

[Anonymous]

Are you talking about a QSI or a Step level increase? You should have gotten an SF 50 to memorialize that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you talking about a QSI or a Step level increase? You should have gotten an SF 50 to memorialize that.

I"m in a banded pay-for-performance system so I'm not sure. They call it a merit increase.

I didn't get the SF50 yet. I'm detailed to another location and my boss (at my home office) and I don't talk if we don't have to. Our written reviews are submitted online and then the results are available to us online shortly after our reviews. I saw that I earned a merit increase and I assumed it would be in this paycheck since it covered the beginning of the new year. I know the SF50 is the official word, but sometimes I don't get those for weeks after a change has been made.

As for COLA, I thought we normally didn't see that until the 2nd paycheck each year. Not sure why but I remember always thinking that it took two paychecks in the new year to get all of the changes included.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you get a paycheck today? Count yourself lucky.

Yes, god forbid an employed person wants to make sure her employer is paying her appropriately when you don't have a job.

Wonder if that person was referring to the fact that some Feds who normally get paid on Mondays instead, if Monday is a federal holiday, don't get the deposit until Tuesday. Guess the government is earning interest on my paycheck for a day. When I was in the private sector, when Monday was a holiday, they deposited the check on Friday.