Federal Executive Pay is Inadequate

Government Executive: A recent story in USA Today, “Vice President Pence's pay bump is not as big as Republicans wanted,” illustrates a problem at the core of government’s staffing problems. For employees paid under the General Schedule, the new 1.9 percent increase—when combined with an average 1.4 percent step increase—is consistent with increase trends in the private sector. The total is also better than the 2018 increase in the Consumer Price Index.

That is not to suggest federal employee salaries are adequate. Since the recession GS salary increases, when compounded, have been below the levels for comparable jobs in the private sector.

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