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Dancing and Playing to the Crowd: Predictions for Your 2007 Pay Raise
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Pay Raise
DOD
Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:24 AM
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Wish I could get 80.000 a year,try to make that in the midwest.
Poor Feds
FAA
Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:36 AM
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One thing that the article, and many federal employees fail to realize, is that federal, state, and local government employees, along with private sector employees, are all falling behind the inflation curve when it comes to cost of living.
Some get more of an increase, some less, but on the average, Americans fall 3-5% behind inflation EACH YEAR. (the govt doesn't count food or energy costs when determining inflation, which are two commodities that people rarely use anyway, I guess).
But the bottom line is that we have a choice, and if we're not happy with the raises, we can go elsewhere. The reason many of us don't is that (as the article said) Congress will continue to approve pay raises to keep their voters happy - hence keep the powers that be in office.
Prediction - I see about 2.5% for 2007 (including locality).
Re: Poor Feds
DOD
Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:24 PM
Really, my food and fuel bills are quite low. I'm one of the fortunate ones, one of the ones that's content with very little (because I save for retirement, etc.), but I do worry about people with children who make the same amount of money. How can THEY possibly be getting by?
I can't complain, but........
Justice
Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:57 AM
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It amazes me how much some private sector people make in this city. Admittedly, there are few parallels for my job in the real world, but I sure liked the Pay Parity Act when George HW enacted it. As a senior 13, I am well above the "median" but the number of relatively young people in the private sector making well into six figures around here is astonishing. Plus, I am a non LE employee working in an LE environment (I don't get availability pay, nor do I want what comes with it) .
I understand that we serve the will of the people and I am proud to do it. My only beef is with federal employees being made the "whipping boy" when Clinton took office and now Bush and the associated perception that we are hogs at the trough.
My private sector wife is my reality check, however. When we get "shafted" on the yearly bump, she reminds me that she has received only one pay raise in the last four years. She is not one of the highly paid young people I referenced earlier.
raise won't cover health insurance increase
Bureau of Prisons
Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:20 AM
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as a rule, the pay raise each year runs pretty close to what the increase in our health benefits are - with a few dollars left to pay the tax increase it caused in our pay check.
Re: raise won't cover health insurance increase
DoD
Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:35 AM
Pay Raise
SSA
Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:55 PM
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I took my Federal job because of the chance to help people. My child works in private industry and makes more money with better benefits & has 25 years less experience. I don't have enough staff or resources to help people the way we should. I stay for 2 reasons- inertia and someone has to try to help people- not because of the 3.1%. I use my wife's (non Federal employee) FREE medical insurance with FREE prescriptions instead of my "generous" medical benefits. My 3.1% will go to my TSP in the hopes that when stess forces me out, I will be able to pay my property taxes.
2007 "Pay Raise?"
AFRC
Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:09 PM
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Feds--have you forgotten about NSPS?
If that's implemented--first in DHS, DOD, then across the board into all federal agencies--there won't BE any 2007 pay increase!
Remember, it'll be "pay for performance" then, and we'll all get the $$ raise our bosses feel we've earned and rightfully deserve (*snicker*).
If you're really interested in that pay raise, wake up and start reading up on NSPS. Then start writing your legislators. I've written to all House and Senate Govt'l Reform members, and have actually gotten replies. So far, everyone I've written to has come out against NSPS, even Republicans.
Just b/c NSPS was shelved til Oct 06 doesn't mean it's gone away forever. We're far from being "in the clear, which means we're all still in danger...
I'll offer it up
DoD
Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:34 PM
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I think the government should offer employees on bases affected by BRAC to give up their raise in exchange for not moving the jobs. I personnaly would give up my raise for 3 years if the Government would let me finish my career where I am. Im probably one of the few who view it like this since alot of folks just end up quitting the Government rather than uproot their families. The raises offered up would translate into real savings without PCS costs, cleanup costs, construction costs and all the other costs associated with closing a base.