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The Federal Salary Council (FSC) is an advisory body of the executive branch of the United States government. Established under the provisions of Title 5, section 5304(e) of the United States Code, the FSC provides recommendations on the locality pay program, [1] created by the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990 (FEPCA).
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 ...
In December 2007, the President's Pay Agent reported that an average locality pay adjustment of 36.89% would be required to reach the target set by FEPCA (to close the computed pay gap between federal and non-federal pay to a disparity of 5%). By comparison, in calendar year 2007, the average locality pay adjustment actually authorized was 16.88%.
The federal government has closed 21 times since 1977, for a total of 162 days and an average of nearly eight days per shutdown. Here is what you need to know about how a government shutdown could ...
Blocks 12/20 are further subdivided into sub-blocks A (basic pay), B (locality adjustment), C (adjusted basic pay, total of A and B), and D (other pay). This section is most frequently used to denote general pay increases, promotions or within-grade increases, changes in duty station, or any monetary awards.
The Brief. Federal government agencies and departments will close on Thursday, Jan. 9. Biden declared Jan. 9 a National Day of Mourning in the wake of late former President Jimmy Carter's death.
What we know about his funeral The public observances will be held in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., followed by a private interment in Plains, Georgia, The Carter Center said in a statement.
The fiscal year 2010 president's budget request for a 2.9% military pay raise was consistent with this formula. However, Congress, in fiscal years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009 approved the pay raise as the ECI increase plus 0.5%. The 2007 pay raise was equal to the ECI. A military pay raise larger than the permanent formula is not uncommon.