White House News Flash: There's a Pay Freeze

The great majority of federal employees are already painfully aware of this fact, but the White House made it official Monday: the freeze on salaries for civilian feds remains in effect for another year.

In an annual exercise, President Obama issued an executive order spelling out exactly what next year's pay rates would be for various federal salary schedules.

This year, though, he noted that the order simply "freezes certain pay schedules for civilian federal employees at 2010 levels through 2012."