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The General Schedule (GS) is the predominant pay scale within the United States civil service. The GS includes the majority of white collar personnel (professional, technical, administrative, and clerical) positions. As of September 2004, 71 percent of federal civilian employees were paid under the GS. The GG pay rates are identical to ...
On March 8, 2025, the House introduced a stopgap bill that would extended the budget to September 30, 2025, the final day before the start of the 2026 budget. [54] If enacted, then the whole 2025 budget would have been fully funded as an extension of the prior budget set in 2024 under President Joe Biden.
Another pay increase of 4.5% was given to military members as part of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. Earlier this year, a pay raise of 5.2% on average was given to federal employees ...
The United States Merit Systems Protection Board is an independent U.S. federal government agency whose function is to protect career civil service employees from arbitrary firings. In February 2025, Trump removed a Democratic member of the board, Cathy Harris, who had served three years of her term, and demoted the other Democratic member. [104]
Feb. 6 marked the deadline for federal workers to accept the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Trump Administration's offer of a buyout. These buyouts, or the option of "deferred ...
A lawsuit filed by federal employee unions alleged that the deferred resignation offer violates the Administrative Procedure Act. [31] [32] On February 6, 2025, Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts placed the deadline on hold pending a February 10 hearing.
On the campaign trail, Trump promised a variety of tax breaks, including removing the TCJA’s $10,000 cap on the deduction for state and local taxes, and eliminating taxes on tip income, overtime ...
For example, federal employees paid on the General Schedule may not earn more than the rate for Level IV of the Executive Schedule, after factoring in GS special rates and locality pay. [4] Because of these pay caps and freezes to the Executive Schedule, federal workers at the top of their pay bands are often unable to receive pay increases ...