President Joe Biden gave the gift of an annual pay raise just before Christmas Eve to federal employees.
On Friday, the White House issued an executive order formally declaring a 4.6% average pay increase, comprised of an across-the-board pay raise of 4.1% plus a 0.5% locality pay adjustment for millions of civilian employees.
That order is consistent with the preliminary raise he initially proposed at the end of August, which was, and is, significantly larger than last year’s raise of 2.7%. Congress silently endorsed the rate Biden proposed by not setting an alternative in the omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2023.
“This increase is on par with the pay raise given to military members, and it tracks with recent increases in private-sector pay for the second consecutive year,” said Ken Thomas, national president of the National Association for Active and Retired Federal Employees, in a statement.
It’s become customary for the president to declare his own pay raise and bypass the automatic adjustment triggered by the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990. If the president fails to issue a pay raise, it defaults by law. The president has authority to circumvent the rate set by the Pay Agent, which includes the directors of the White House Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management, as well as the secretary of labor.
Not everyone is guaranteed a 4.6% adjustment, however.
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