When does it take.effect?

Anonymous wrote:It's not a bad pay raise and it almost keeps up with inflation. I'm just thankful to have a job.

A pay raise that “almost keeps up” is a tiny pay cut, no? I would have made very different decisions had I understood that my Federal career would be twenty years, so far, years of annual pay raises that “almost” or “don’t by a long shot” keep up with inflation.

Have other careers kept up this poorly or is it just us?

Anonymous wrote:It's not a bad pay raise and it almost keeps up with inflation. I'm just thankful to have a job.

It’s not keeping up. Inflation in 2022 was 8%.

This was the year to play catch up and disgruntled Biden gave feds a big fu.

It's not a bad pay raise and it almost keeps up with inflation. I'm just thankful to have a job.

Anonymous wrote:Around 2.2% for DC: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/25Tables/html/DCB.aspx

Another year another effective pay cut.

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Anonymous wrote:He couldn't do a higher pay raise because it would have resulted in furloughs and RIFs at agencies where the expenses are almost entirely salaries. If you give everyone a 4.5% raise and there is no budget for it, guess what happens. There are already places that will struggle at 2%.

BULLLLCRAAPPPP.

if some of the agencies function is just to pay their employees and they can't collect their own fees then may be there should be some RIF/cuts needed.

Governments don’t exist to make profits. It’s there to do the things for the public good that would not be done otherwise. Some agencies primarily have human capital, and they probably are relatively inexpensive and work on the equivalent of a fixed income. Federal dollars are also divided between personal services (paying people) and non-personal services (everything else, including contractors). You can’t use one to pay the other. So particularly under a continuing resolution there is no additional PS money to fund the raises, and this hurts those smaller agencies with no wiggle room.

I say give better salary raises if you have to cut some positions or do RIF at a regular basis. I can't believe some loafers take it down for all the employees.

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Anonymous wrote:He couldn't do a higher pay raise because it would have resulted in furloughs and RIFs at agencies where the expenses are almost entirely salaries. If you give everyone a 4.5% raise and there is no budget for it, guess what happens. There are already places that will struggle at 2%.

BULLLLCRAAPPPP.

if some of the agencies function is just to pay their employees and they can't collect their own fees then may be there should be some RIF/cuts needed.

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Anonymous wrote:Would Biden ever give more than 2 percent on his way out the door as an FU to trump?

Obviously, he didn't and he was urged to do so (4.5%) by Virginia Dems Kaine and Warner amongst others.
He gave the FU to the Federal government workers instead.

Do you really think DC area politicians are that strong/influential that president would listen to them? The biggest loser is congressman, Connelly who don't do anything for feds but just introduce a bill every year for crazy pay raise that don't go anywhere

Anonymous wrote:He couldn't do a higher pay raise because it would have resulted in furloughs and RIFs at agencies where the expenses are almost entirely salaries. If you give everyone a 4.5% raise and there is no budget for it, guess what happens. There are already places that will struggle at 2%.

BULLLLCRAAPPPP.

Anonymous wrote:He couldn't do a higher pay raise because it would have resulted in furloughs and RIFs at agencies where the expenses are almost entirely salaries. If you give everyone a 4.5% raise and there is no budget for it, guess what happens. There are already places that will struggle at 2%.

Not true and Kaine, Warner, others wouldn't have proposed if that were the case.

Anonymous wrote:I think they meant HDHP, High Deductible Health Plan.

HDHP makes sense financially for many many people, but for not everyone.

If one of the covered has chronic serious health issues, then another option might make more sense.

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Anonymous wrote:how much is BCBS standard option for Virginia for family is going up? This is like $4K raise for me annually.

BCBS is too expensive.

This. People who aren’t doing CDHPs are suckers.

what is CDHP?

I think they meant HDHP, High Deductible Health Plan.

He couldn't do a higher pay raise because it would have resulted in furloughs and RIFs at agencies where the expenses are almost entirely salaries. If you give everyone a 4.5% raise and there is no budget for it, guess what happens. There are already places that will struggle at 2%.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:how much is BCBS standard option for Virginia for family is going up? This is like $4K raise for me annually.

BCBS is too expensive.

This. People who aren’t doing CDHPs are suckers.

what is CDHP?