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LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's 2025 state budget proposes adding about 588 full-time employees to the payroll and would bring the authorized state workforce to its highest level in more than ...
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 ...
From Jan. 1, 2025, to Feb. 20, 2025, the minimum wage will be $10.56 an hour, and the tipped minimum wage will be $4.01 an hour. For minors, the hourly minimum wage will be $8.98 an hour.
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.
Federal Workers Still Get Raises H.R. 273 does NOT prevent federal employees from receiving bonuses, merit based pay increases, promotions, or even tenure based pay increases – commonly referred to as “step” increases. It simply prevents the President from implementing a planned across the board increase for all federal employees [27]
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 ...
Here's what to know about what government employees would continue to work during a shutdown, according to shutdown plans outlined in 2023 and summarized by Reuters. Government shutdown: What to ...
The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, passed in June 2023, resolved that year's debt-ceiling crisis and set spending caps for FY2024 and FY2025. The act called for $895 billion in defense spending and $711 billion in non-defense discretionary spending for fiscal year 2025, representing a 1% increase over fiscal year 2024. [10]