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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I bet we get at least 3.25%[/quote]

My agency receives one salaries and expenses appropriation. If Congress holds it constant, I don’t see how we can absorb a COLA and automatic step increases, not to mention promotions. [/quote]

My agency had step increases on hold for years and there are people who were hired after a hiring freeze who were brought in earning more than their supervisors (I am one of them and my TL deserves a raise). I really really hope they can reward people who have been patient while also bringing pay closer to industry norms. Right now we earn less than counterparts in academia, thought still more than average feds.[/quote]

You really need to be brilliant to be in academia in DC or another big city at a well regarded institution. Likely you can't cut it in academia, so why would you expect to make what your friend who is a prof at Georgetown is making? If you wanted to go into the office 5 days a week, be "on" all the time, and have no job security than you would try to make the jump to the private sector and get the 20% pay increase. But somewhere you either don't want that or you've been shut out. The private sector is shedding jobs right now in and not hiring as robustly (and hiring will continue to slow and shedding will continue with higher interest rates). The private sector is not looking for a bunch of new gov. employees to hire. [/quote]

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