Why Your Raise or Annuity Goes Down Faster Than Inflation Goes Up
How is inflation measured? Measurement methods have changed. Those who think their decline in purchasing power is higher than reported are probably right.
How is inflation measured? Measurement methods have changed. Those who think their decline in purchasing power is higher than reported are probably right.
Inflation is soaring. How does the inflation rate compare to 45 years of pay raises and COLAs?
Are the retirement decisions by federal employees impacted by politics and policy decisions?
Speculation about a 2023 federal employee pay raise is now underway. How about 4.6%?
The annual federal pay raise interests all federal workers. Over the past 53 years, what was the highest, lowest, and average federal pay raise?
Legislation introduced in Congress would set the 2023 federal pay raise at 5.1%.
The inflation rate measured by the CPI-W went up 7.8% in 2021 reducing purchasing power of the 2022 COLA and pay raise now in effect.
President Biden’s Executive Order on the 2022 federal pay raise impacts a number of federal employee pay schedules.
A vaccine mandate, a big COLA, and more telework: these are some of the biggest events for federal employees in 2021.
Which locality pay areas received the highest—and lowest—pay raise in 2022? Here is the list.