Your Take: What is a Fair Pay Raise?
What raise do you think is fair? Here is your chance to share your opinion.
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What raise do you think is fair? Here is your chance to share your opinion.
The American Federation of Government Employees has decided that the pay increase President Obama proposed for federal workers in 2015 is one fourth the size that it should be. However, it is at best unclear how the union arrived at this figure.
FedSmith.com readers predicted a 1% proposal by the administration for a federal employee pay raise in 2015. Here are sample comments and forthright opinions.
President Obama will propose a 1% pay increase for federal employees and military members in his upcoming 2015 budget proposal.
The author says that a lot of headlines about the pay of the federal workforce are intentionally misleading, and in some cases, outright falsehoods.
The author says there are a number of good reasons to reform the General Schedule pay system. He offers some detail on why he believes this to be so.
A listing of the federal holidays in 2014
More than 1.4 million employees are covered by the General Schedule. Another 30K are covered by pay plans that tie their pay directly to GS rates. Should the GS system be replaced?
The TSP issued a statement saying that balances in the G fund will be unaffected by the recent steps the Treasury has taken to avoid hitting the debt ceiling.
Stocks went down in January. Does the January indicator mean you should dump your stocks? Also, see how investing in the C fund versus the G fund may have impacted TSP account balances over the previous three years.