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The pay scale was originally created with the purpose of keeping federal salaries in line with equivalent private sector jobs. Although never the intent, the GS pay scale does a good job of ensuring equal pay for equal work by reducing pay gaps between men, women, and minorities, in accordance with another, separate law, the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
Fork in the Road" is the title and subject line of a memo sent on January 28, 2025, by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to all employees of the U.S. federal civil service. The memo, the first ever mass message to all roughly two million federal employees, offered a deferred resignation program for those unwilling to work under the ...
As long as their military pay is taxable on a federal income tax return, retired service members of the U.S. armed forces who are residents of Connecticut are exempt from paying state income taxes ...
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 ...
Seniors may qualify for Social Security retirement benefits if they worked long enough to earn 40 credits (where one credit is defined as $1,810 in earnings in 2025), and you can earn a maximum of ...
Mounting costs led Congress to pursue reforms to the military retirement system during the 1980s. Under the National Defense Authorization Act of 1981, the military moved from calculating retirement benefits based on the "final pay," or base pay on the final day of active service, to the "High-3" system. [9]
If the agency does not have a certified system, the maximum pay is set at Level III of the Executive Schedule ($207,500 for 2025). [6] Total aggregate pay is limited to the salary of the Vice President of the United States ($289,400 for 2025). [6] Prior to 2004, the SES used a six-level system.
A new report from Morningstar recommends the safe withdrawal rate for retirees in 2025 is a mere 3.7% — a significant adjustment from the decades-old 4% rule that had dominated retirement planning.