Anonymous
Post 12/18/2025 18:13     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/adjustments-of-certain-rates-of-pay/

Links to tables at the end of the EO

1% as expected for GS, no COLA for DC area. (Maybe no COLA for all areas - I didn’t check anything but DC area.)
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2025 16:05     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Remove pay ceiling for GS15s


Yes! How many steps within the grade are the same pay now? 6 and up ?


Yup , pay compression step 6 & up.
Ridiculous. Even Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced an effort to correct.


Exactly why I remain a GS14 Step 10.


Did you turn down a 15 because of pay compression?


NP. I have absolutely turned down a GS15 because it's more work and no more pay. Our GS15s have significantly more demanding workloads.


Same here, it's a total shit job although I am grateful there are people willing to do it.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2025 16:00     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Remove pay ceiling for GS15s


Yes! How many steps within the grade are the same pay now? 6 and up ?


Yup , pay compression step 6 & up.
Ridiculous. Even Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced an effort to correct.


Exactly why I remain a GS14 Step 10.


Did you turn down a 15 because of pay compression?


NP. I have absolutely turned down a GS15 because it's more work and no more pay. Our GS15s have significantly more demanding workloads.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2025 13:47     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Remove pay ceiling for GS15s


Yes! How many steps within the grade are the same pay now? 6 and up ?


Yup , pay compression step 6 & up.
Ridiculous. Even Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced an effort to correct.


Exactly why I remain a GS14 Step 10.


Did you turn down a 15 because of pay compression?



!Oh yes, absolutely and I have done it several times. I have a sweet non-supervisory, 15 gig and would not do supervisory work for the same salary. LOL
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2025 12:24     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
Anonymous wrote:Fdic got 4% increase for 2026

Must be nice to have the money printing machine
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2025 10:04     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
Anonymous wrote:Fdic got 4% increase for 2026


Nice. Do you know what other fin regs got?
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2025 10:00     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
Fdic got 4% increase for 2026
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2025 22:19     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
I’ve been praying for a VERA in 2026!! Will it be Gov wide???
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2025 22:15     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
Anonymous wrote:Doge 2.0 coming in January. We all just had to submit Vera lists too.


Really? There will be another VERA?
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2025 22:13     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Remove pay ceiling for GS15s


Isn’t that statutory? If so, good luck getting something passed to change that.


Even Democrats would be unwilling to give a windfall to senior federal employees out of concerns over income inequality. And Republicans are just mean-spirited.

It's not going to change without revamping the entire system. But given Trump's actions, feds will naturally be distrustful of things like pay-for-performance that would give political appointees more opportunities to screw people over as political retribution.


It’s hard to see how this really impacts income inequality, but getting Congress to act on anything (even if there were reasonably broad agreement and enough votes to pass) seems unlikely.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2025 21:04     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Remove pay ceiling for GS15s


Yes! How many steps within the grade are the same pay now? 6 and up ?


Yup , pay compression step 6 & up.
Ridiculous. Even Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced an effort to correct.


Exactly why I remain a GS14 Step 10.


Did you turn down a 15 because of pay compression?
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2025 21:02     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
Regardless it won’t make up for the huge jump in healthcare premiums or drop in services for the increased premiums.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2025 20:41     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Remove pay ceiling for GS15s


Isn’t that statutory? If so, good luck getting something passed to change that.


Even Democrats would be unwilling to give a windfall to senior federal employees out of concerns over income inequality. And Republicans are just mean-spirited.

It's not going to change without revamping the entire system. But given Trump's actions, feds will naturally be distrustful of things like pay-for-performance that would give political appointees more opportunities to screw people over as political retribution.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2025 19:35     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Remove pay ceiling for GS15s


Yes! How many steps within the grade are the same pay now? 6 and up ?


Yup , pay compression step 6 & up.
Ridiculous. Even Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced an effort to correct.


Exactly why I remain a GS14 Step 10.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2025 19:33     Subject: federal employee pay raise 2026
Anonymous wrote:Remove pay ceiling for GS15s


Isn’t that statutory? If so, good luck getting something passed to change that.