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Obama makes
2015 federal pay raise official
Saturday - 12/20/2014
By Julia Ziegler
Federal employees under the General Schedule will receive a 1 percent
pay increase in 2015. President Barack Obama signed an executive order
Friday making the raise official.
This is the second year in a row feds have received a 1 percent pay
increase, after three years of pay freezes from 2011-2013.
Most members of the military (both commissioned and enlisted) will also
receive a 1 percent pay raise.
One percent raises will also go into effect for employees under the
Foreign Service Schedule and the schedules for the Veterans Health
Administration. The minimum salary for members of the Senior Executive
Service will rise to $121,956, up 1 percent as well.
View the updated pay schedules and a synopsis of the pay increases from
OPM.
Members of Congress will not get a raise this year. Nor will the Vice
President and certain senior political appointees covered by the
Executive Schedule, after those salaries were frozen as part of the
2015 spending package.
According to OPM, special base rates for law enforcement officers (GS
3-10) will also increase 1 percent, as will the minimum rate of basic
pay for senior-level (SL), and scientific and professional (ST)
employees.
The President's executive order, however, keeps locality pay
percentages at 2014 levels.
Pay increases for members of the military go into effect on Jan. 1,
2015, while all other pay rates take effect "on the first day of the
first applicable pay period beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2015,"
according to the executive order.
Despite the pay raise, some federal employees have voiced frustration
to Federal News Radio. They say the 1 percent raise does not do enough
to keep up with inflation, including the average increase in health
care costs feds expect to see this year.
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