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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s at 5.2% in NDAA and silent everywhere else, which usually means it will end up at 5.2% if it tracks most other years.[/quote]

No way this happens for civilians.  The administration will settle for around 3 to get nutty GOP stuff out.[/quote]

I work in the budget and this is not what I’m hearing from OMB and OPM, the Republican House is fine with 5.2% and that was administration’s proposal so everyone is expecting that to be the number.[/quote]

The house being fin with 5.2 shows they are getting smarter about cutting federal government. A 5.2% increase in the most expensive line item in most agency budgets coupled with flat or cut appropriations means program cuts and hiring freezes [/quote]

Unless you’re an agency that is all people and don’t run any programs salaries and expenses are a very small percentage of total budgets, at our agency it’s less than 3%. The pay raise is a rounding error in our total budget.[/quote]

I work in an agency that manages land and buildings and salaries are still a massive part of our budget. It's bad. [/quote]

What agency is this?

Total federal pay is $136 billion out of $6.5 trillion in annual federal spending so salaries are 2% of all federal spending. You’re talking about a 5.2% increase to 2% of the budget, it makes no difference to any agency that isn’t all people, which is most agencies.

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That’s not the right way of looking at things.  Over two-thirds of federal spending is non-discretionary, such as social security and Medicare.  Those can’t be touched.  Of the $1.7 trillion in discretionary spending, nearly half is military/defense, which also isn’t getting touched.  So you have $919 billion in non-military discretionary spending, which is the only pot of money Congress will mess with.  Federal civilian salaries are a much higher share of that amount.  A five percent pay increase will have a significant impact on agency spending, and may cause tensions with Congress’s desire to hold spending flat.[/quote]

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