Following years of encouragement from federal employee unions and some lawmakers, the Office of Personnel Management is set to propose new rules that would standardize the maps relied upon to determine locality pay rates for white- and blue-collar federal ...

Air Force human resources executives at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are shaking up the venerable general schedule or “GS” pay and performance schedule that the U.S. civil service has used for decades. Last year, some 70% of federal civilian ...

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has confirmed a 1% pay increase for most federal employees in 2026. This adjustment, effective from January, is part of the annual salary increment plan designed to align federal employee earnings with the rising ...

In recent weeks, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton—along with Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and Maryland Democrats Glenn Ivey, Jamie Raskin and David Trone—introduced the Pay Compression Relief Act bill, which aims to alleviate the effects of pay compression on ...

Some 1.5 million civilian federal government employees fall under the General Schedule or “GS” pay and promotion system, making them the biggest civilian white-collar federal workforce. Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force ...