This is assuming Congress doesn’t make a change, which is unlikely.
As usual, the Article III Judiciary and others at the very top will be the biggest beneficiaries.
Chief Justice would go from $298,500 to $312,500.
Associate Justices would go from $285,400 to 298,800.
Circuit Judges would go from $246,600 to $258,200.
District & Trade Judges would go from $232,600 to $243,500.
Executive Schedule employees should do well.
Senior Executive Service employees and Senior General Schedule employees (those at GS-14 & 15 and in pay step 9 or 10) will not do as well due to the statutory limit on their pay and the general pay compression that causes.
Congress itself (except for leadership positions) will remain at $174,000.
Hmm a 5.2% pay increase . . . even though inflation is 3.7%.
What’s formula?
Take the increase in the cost of living.
Multiply by 150% then permanently and irreversibly add that on to all federal wages and pensions.
What’s the rational?
Lemme guess “You guys have been working hard, cutting concertina wire and fist bumping criminals. You deserve regular fat pay increases above and beyond your cost of living adjustment.”
Or maybe it’s “You guys have done a great job jailing Republicans for doing the same thing eco activists and gay activists do on a regular basis. Biggest political purge since the McCarthy era! You guys deserve a raise!.”
Pay increases aren’t based on the inflation rate, they’re based on the Employment Cost Index minus 0.5%.
If they ever fully implemented the 1990 Federal Employees Pay Comparabilty Act (FEPCA), feds would be due an increase of 22% or so. Generally, the President proposes an alternate, lower pay plan, like this one.
It’s all stupid, and libs are clearly failed products of a defunct educational system.
When it all comes crashing down, the government will still survive, and will need people like me to put the frothing rioting libs down. There will be no further use for them and they certainly wouldn’t be welcome anywhere that mattered to government continuity.
When the cost of health insurance goes up
Federal employees get the added health insurance plus get an extra raise in their cash wages above and beyond inflation.
When the cost of benefits go up (workers comp, family leave etc.), Federal employees get the benefits plus get an extra raise in their cash wages above and beyond inflation.
When Federal employees get an added holiday (like Juneteenth) they get the paid holiday plus get an extra raise in their cash wages above and beyond inflation.
Worker: “Why’d I get a raise?”
Employer: “Well, we gave you an extra paid day off so the cost of compensating you went up.”
IOW it sounds pretty stupid to me but since we are talking about the government, maybe it happened.
When I see them cutting razor write and fist-bumping illegals I think it might be time for them to consider quitting their jobs on ethical grounds.
There is a line where most people think “I wouldn’t do that for middle class pay. I’d rather learn to drive a truck or fix air conditioners. Nope I won’t be a whore and I won’t raise my sons and daughters to be whores.”
The rationale (which applies to Clinton, Bush II, Obama, Trump & Biden, who all issued these executive pay orders every year) is to adjust Federal pay for inflation.
If your an inventory management specialist, GS-5, at Step 10 (you’ve been with the government 18 years), you would be making right at the bottom of the range of what private sector inventory management specialists would be making.
If your looking for job security, the General Schedule is the place for you.
If your looking for superior pay, you will find it in the private sector.
Wouldn’t that imply a pay increase the same as inflation instead of 150% times inflation?
“Apples went up $1.00 so mega-big apple corporation raised the orice to consumers $1.50” would not exactly have libs falling over themselves to applaud.
