Government Executive
President Biden on Thursday issued an executive order implementing his plan to provide civilian federal workers with an average 5.2 percent pay raise next month.
As first proposed in his fiscal 2024 budget plan last March, the increase amounts to a 4.7 percent across-the-board boost to basic pay, alongside an average 0.5 percent increase in locality pay. As authorized in the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, which Biden is expected to sign this week, military service personnel also will see an average 5.2 percent pay raise next year.
An average 5.2 percent pay increase marks the largest authorized for federal workers since the Carter administration adopted a 9.1 percent average raise in 1980, as well as a 0.6 percent increase over last year’s raise, which itself marked a 20-year high.
