Pay & Benefits

Report: Federal pay, benefits double private sector's

New numbers don’t account for higher education of federal employees, and fail to evaluate comparable jobs, critics say.

Pay & Benefits

Bargaining for Pay

Will the new Defense and Homeland Security personnel systems open salaries to negotiation?

Pay & Benefits

TSP international fund far outpaces others in yearlong returns

Small and mid-size domestic companies continue volatile streak, dipping in July.

Management

OPM blamed for under-representation of Hispanics in government

New report gives the personnel agency a flunking mark for leadership, accountability.

Features

Unquiet Minority

Hispanics hold a smaller percentage of jobs in federal agencies than in the private sector, and they're not happy.

Pay & Benefits

Cost-of-living adjustment to remain same for Alaska, Hawaii, territories

OPM study finds different methodology would not alter housing cost estimates enough to warrant cost-of-living changes.

Pay & Benefits

California feds seek pay policy change

Citing recruitment and retention problems, report advocates housing allowances in lieu of locality pay system.

Pay & Benefits

Enabled

A government program provides free technology to help federal workers overcome physical limitations.

News

Senator to interns: Go for government jobs

Seeking a "big bank account" and a "fancy house" shows a "poverty of ambition," says Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

Pay & Benefits

OPM, lawmakers seek to ease rehiring of federal retirees

National Intelligence Director issues policy for creating retiree corps.

Pay & Benefits

Report: Cabinet pay falls compared to senior executives

New GAO study looks at salaries over 36 years and finds a drop of at least 27 percent in Cabinet officials’ pay, adjusted for inflation.

Pay & Benefits

A Year in the Life-Cycle Funds

Option introduced last summer outperforms the most popular basic funds, and keeps employees from chasing returns.

News

New campaign targets college students for federal jobs

On-campus poster and Web campaign will feature the stories of young civil servants.

Pay & Benefits

Senate panel votes to give civilians higher raise than military

Appropriations bill also retains language introduced last year to limit public-private competitions.

Pay & Benefits

SES ratings drop under new performance evaluation system

Average pay raise grows slightly in fiscal 2005 from previous year.

Pay & Benefits

Think tank blasts TSP real estate fund proposal

Move would shift the balance of power for oversight of the federal retirement fund from the TSP board to Congress, Heritage Foundation report argues.

Pay & Benefits

Senators take new stab at redefining law officer jobs

Expanding the definition of federal law enforcement officer would give more employees early retirement option.

Pay & Benefits

A Dip in the Pay Pool

A look at how the Defense Department’s new system for setting pay raises will work.

Management

Lawmaker proposes panel to study employee appeals backlog

Managers’ groups support idea but unions say commission would be stacked with political appointees.

Defense

Thousands more employees to join new Defense pay system

Unions label the announcement a political move to counter congressional efforts to eliminate funding.