Biden to propose 5.2% federal pay increase, largest in pay raise in 43 years

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand fed employees. You have guaranteed salaries and jobs 4 life but all you do is complain, complain, complain. My neighbors are an GS-14 and 15. The government paid their student loans for them, and other than their mortgage, they are debt free and living their best lives. They just bought a vacation home in Shenandoah and take multiple vacations each year. Why are y'all complaining again?

I don’t understand stupid posts like this. The vast majority of Feds will never become GS 13/14/15 in their entire career.

What’s a job in the federal government that isn’t on a track to a GS-13, and the employees don’t already make more in total compensation than private sector counterparts?

More ignorance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I am a new fed in my first year of fed employment do I still get this raise?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand fed employees. You have guaranteed salaries and jobs 4 life but all you do is complain, complain, complain. My neighbors are an GS-14 and 15. The government paid their student loans for them, and other than their mortgage, they are debt free and living their best lives. They just bought a vacation home in Shenandoah and take multiple vacations each year. Why are y'all complaining again?

I don’t understand stupid posts like this. The vast majority of Feds will never become GS 13/14/15 in their entire career.

What’s a job in the federal government that isn’t on a track to a GS-13, and the employees don’t already make more in total compensation than private sector counterparts?

More ignorance.

I’d really like to know. Pretty much all of the professional positions at my agency can lead to a GS-15. The administrative and facilities positions do not, but their total compensation is quite good compared to private sector positions.

What examples are you thinking of?

I get why a lot of people don't have sympathy for pay-capped GS-15s (and 14s, in some cases), but those are the positions where there really is a substantial compensation gap between feds and the private sector. It's already getting to be a problem to recruit decent managers given that external candidates would need to accept a large pay cut, and decent potential internal candidates are generally already capped.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand fed employees. You have guaranteed salaries and jobs 4 life but all you do is complain, complain, complain. My neighbors are an GS-14 and 15. The government paid their student loans for them, and other than their mortgage, they are debt free and living their best lives. They just bought a vacation home in Shenandoah and take multiple vacations each year. Why are y'all complaining again?

I don’t understand stupid posts like this. The vast majority of Feds will never become GS 13/14/15 in their entire career.

What’s a job in the federal government that isn’t on a track to a GS-13, and the employees don’t already make more in total compensation than private sector counterparts?

Huh? No job I had after GS11 had a ladder or a career track. To get a promotion I had to apply for new jobs. If I’d stayed in my job for 20 years and was the best person on the planet, I still couldn’t have gotten a raise.

My first job was a 7/9/11 and I was promoted based on job performance.

I wasn’t talking about ladders, although I’ve certainly seen ladders go to GS-13. I meant there’s a realistic career path for most people in professional fed jobs to get GS-13+, provided they’re reasonably good at their jobs.

Honestly, at my agency, you don’t even have to be all that good to get to a GS-13. Past that the expectations for promotions get quite a bit higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand fed employees. You have guaranteed salaries and jobs 4 life but all you do is complain, complain, complain. My neighbors are an GS-14 and 15. The government paid their student loans for them, and other than their mortgage, they are debt free and living their best lives. They just bought a vacation home in Shenandoah and take multiple vacations each year. Why are y'all complaining again?

I don’t understand stupid posts like this. The vast majority of Feds will never become GS 13/14/15 in their entire career.

The VAST majority of DCUM posters are in fact in jobs on track to become 13/14/15.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand fed employees. You have guaranteed salaries and jobs 4 life but all you do is complain, complain, complain. My neighbors are an GS-14 and 15. The government paid their student loans for them, and other than their mortgage, they are debt free and living their best lives. They just bought a vacation home in Shenandoah and take multiple vacations each year. Why are y'all complaining again?

I don’t understand stupid posts like this. The vast majority of Feds will never become GS 13/14/15 in their entire career.

The VAST majority of DCUM posters are in fact in jobs on track to become 13/14/15.

What percentage of all 2 million federal workers are posting on DCUM??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand fed employees. You have guaranteed salaries and jobs 4 life but all you do is complain, complain, complain. My neighbors are an GS-14 and 15. The government paid their student loans for them, and other than their mortgage, they are debt free and living their best lives. They just bought a vacation home in Shenandoah and take multiple vacations each year. Why are y'all complaining again?

I don’t understand stupid posts like this. The vast majority of Feds will never become GS 13/14/15 in their entire career.

The VAST majority of DCUM posters are in fact in jobs on track to become 13/14/15.

What percentage of all 2 million federal workers are posting on DCUM??

not even 1% lol. And I'll also ask and answer - how many of the 2 million federal jobs are in DC where 70 percent of grades go to 13/14/15? roughly 1/3 of2 million.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand fed employees. You have guaranteed salaries and jobs 4 life but all you do is complain, complain, complain. My neighbors are an GS-14 and 15. The government paid their student loans for them, and other than their mortgage, they are debt free and living their best lives. They just bought a vacation home in Shenandoah and take multiple vacations each year. Why are y'all complaining again?

I don’t understand stupid posts like this. The vast majority of Feds will never become GS 13/14/15 in their entire career.

The VAST majority of DCUM posters are in fact in jobs on track to become 13/14/15.

What percentage of all 2 million federal workers are posting on DCUM??

not even 1% lol. And I'll also ask and answer - how many of the 2 million federal jobs are in DC where 70 percent of grades go to 13/14/15? roughly 1/3 of2 million.

Are you trying to say the DCUM crowd doesn't reflect the entire 2 million federal workforce?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand fed employees. You have guaranteed salaries and jobs 4 life but all you do is complain, complain, complain. My neighbors are an GS-14 and 15. The government paid their student loans for them, and other than their mortgage, they are debt free and living their best lives. They just bought a vacation home in Shenandoah and take multiple vacations each year. Why are y'all complaining again?

I don’t understand stupid posts like this. The vast majority of Feds will never become GS 13/14/15 in their entire career.

The VAST majority of DCUM posters are in fact in jobs on track to become 13/14/15.

What percentage of all 2 million federal workers are posting on DCUM??

not even 1% lol. And I'll also ask and answer - how many of the 2 million federal jobs are in DC where 70 percent of grades go to 13/14/15? roughly 1/3 of2 million.

Are you trying to say the DCUM crowd doesn't reflect the entire 2 million federal workforce?

Another fool.