Hang onto your job — especially if it's white collar. The Big Stay is delivering better wage growth for loyal employees over ...

A new proposed rule from OPM will standardize locality pay maps for the General Schedule and the Federal Wage System.

In Seattle and some surrounding cities, the minimum wage is almost $20 an hour. Still, 20 states, bowing to politics and business lobbying, have kept the federal $7.25 an hour as their pay floor.

It’s hard to imagine, even in less expensive regions, how an adult can pay for housing, food, healthcare and transportation on a full-time minimum wage salary of $15,000 a year.

Wage Growth Exceeds Forecasts, Potentially Deterring Fed Rate Cuts The latest data could add to fears that the labor market remains too hot to bring inflation fully under control.

The Locality Pay Equity Act would ensure that locality pay determinations, currently bifurcated between the General Schedule and Federal Wage System pay scales, would be consistent for most ...

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas — Federal wage grade employees at Fort Cavazos, and all federal agencies located in the Waco wage area, will officially see a 4.75 percent increase in their paychecks in the ...

Pay growth and prices picked up, keeping the Fed on track for rate increases. The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge climbed rapidly in June. Wage and benefit gains are fast, too ...

With Congress already battling over hiking the minimum wage to $15 an hour, President Joe Biden likely raised a few eyebrows when he recently said that the federal minimum wage would actually be ...

Pay charts for the 2019 federal employee pay raise are nearly ready says the Trump administration.

Uncle Sam’s locality pay system for federal employees is designed to provide higher pay raises to those working in locations with higher comparable private-sector wages. That makes sense, but in ...

Their collars are blue, which increasingly matches their mood. The wage-grade employees in the federal government don’t get much notice, but this generally quiet group now is making noise.