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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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NP. I'm at a regulatory agency. We are mostly salaries because we fund things like inspectors, policy, people writing new regulations, approving permits, etc.

I know that in my particular office, I have 6 employees. I couldn't cut 5.2% out of my budget, instead my budget would have to be raised by 5.2% That money would have to come from someone else's budget. I just finalized my internal budget request for FY24 for my entire office and it was only 10k for travel, supplies, training, subscriptions, cell phones. I'm sure I'm on the extreme end, but there's lots of offices like mine. [/quote]

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