Most Feds Will Get Retroactive Raise this Pay Period

Government Executive: The federal government’s largest payroll processor announced Tuesday that most civilian federal employees will see the average 1.9 percent pay raise, authorized by Congress in February, in their paychecks next week.

The National Finance Center, which is housed within the Agriculture Department but does payroll for dozens of federal agencies, said that it has implemented the pay increase, which includes a 1.4 percent across-the-board raise and an average of 0.5 percent increase in locality pay, for the current pay period that began on April 7.

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