Pay & Benefits

Federal employees’ health premiums to rise up to 20 percent

Federal employees will pay up to 20 percent more for health coverage next year, the Office of Personnel Management announced Friday.

Pay & Benefits

Senate approves 4.6 percent pay raise

Federal workers would get a 4.6 percent average pay raise, under a bill approved by the Senate this week.

News

Fish and Wildlife Service remembers fallen comrade

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees have been gathering in person and on the Internet to remember the life of a wildlife refuge manager killed in the crash of the hijacked plane in the Pennsylvania countryside last Tuesday.

News

In the skies, confusion and chaos reigned

Pay & Benefits

The one-size-fits-all system

The General Schedule is under attack. Here's how the government's standard pay system works and why some people want to get rid of it.

Pay & Benefits

Bush pay decision could prevent locality-based raises

President Bush on Friday decided to let a 3.6 percent across-the-board pay raise for 2002 stand, a decision that could leave no room for additional locality-based raises for employees in San Francisco, New York and other high-priced cities.

Financial Management

Pennies From Heaven

Pay & Benefits

Pay deadline looms

President Bush has until the end of the day tomorrow to decide what he wants to do about federal employees' pay next year.

Pay & Benefits

OPM enters management reform debate

Office of Personnel Management Director Kay Coles James marked her entrance into the debate over the future of the federal workforce this week.

Pay & Benefits

OPM chief blasts General Schedule pay system

The government’s system of classifying and paying workers is outdated and needs reform, Office of Personnel Management Director Kay Coles James said Tuesday.

Pay & Benefits

OPM pushes new kind of buyout

Federal employees could be eligible for $25,000 buyouts--but only if agencies say they don't have the right skills for today's government.

Pay & Benefits

COLA checkup

Cost-of-living adjustment news for 44,000 federal workers and millions of retirees. Plus, no COLAs for most federal workers.

Pay & Benefits

TSP peek-a-boo

Take a look at some recent Thrift Savings Plan statistics.

Census Bureau

Relationships Count

Civilian Agencies

The Ties That Blur

Pay & Benefits

Pay raise fray

How a 4.6 percent federal pay raise has developed over the past 10 months--and where it's headed next.

Pay & Benefits

No results, no bonus

Should federal executives get bonuses when their agencies fail to meet performance goals?

Managing Technology

A College of One