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This was the starting salary for federal wildland firefighters until two years ago, when the Biden administration allocated $600m from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to increase entry pay to ...
"I didn’t realize this, I have to admit, that federal firefighters get paid $13 an hour. That’s going to end in my administration," Biden said on Tuesday.
The GG pay rates are generally identical to published GS pay rates. The GS-1 through GS-7 range generally marks entry-level positions, while mid-level positions are in the GS-8 to GS-12 range and top-level positions (senior managers, high-level technical specialists, or physicians) are in the GS-13 to GS-15 range.
Federal wildland firefighters, some of whom earn around $20 an hour for grueling and often life-threatening work, will soon see a reprieve from housing woes that have long plagued their ranks.
In 2009, nineteen percent of federal employees earned salaries of $100,000 or more. The average federal worker's pay was $71,208, compared with $40,331 in the private sector, although under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76, most menial or lower paying jobs have been outsourced to private contractors. [13]
Schedule 8 - Pay of the Uniformed Services Part I--Monthly Basic Pay ($) (as of 1 January 2024) [46] Pay Grade [46] Years of service (computed under 37 U.S.C. 205) > 2 Years 2 - 3 Years 3 - 4 Years 4 - 6 Years 6 - 8 Years 8 - 10 Years 10 - 12 Years 12 - 14 Years 14 - 16 Years 16 - 18 Years 18 - 20 Years 20 - 22 Years 22 - 24 Years 24 - 26 Years
Firefighter pay has been the subject of legislation in the last few years, as President Biden raised the minimum wage from $13 to $15 an hour for wildland firefighters in 2021.
The Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990 or FEPCA (H.R. 5241, Pub. L. 101–509) is a United States federal law relating to the salaries for employees of the United States Government. In the 1980s, salaries for civil servants in the executive branch had fallen behind private sector pay. FEPCA was enacted to provide guidelines to ...