Biden’s historic pay raise for federal workers set to take effect
https:// www.washingtonpost.com /politics/2023/12/22/biden-federal-workers-pay-raise/ Biden’s historic pay raise for federal workers set to take effect
Biden doesn't get enough credit for all the good shit he's spearheaded.
139He doesn't talk about the fact that over the past 50 years GDP per person is up 4x, and we've transitioned to both adults in a household working instead of just the man.
If wages kept up we'd be 8x richer per household than 50 years ago, instead buying a house is harder than ever, tuition outpaced inflation by several times, and it's harder than ever to afford healthcare.
Biden has ignored addressing this during his term, Bernie was the only one vocally pointing this out and repeatedly asking for an explanation and a fix. Biden strategically pulled all others in the primary to back him at once to squash that entire movement and stop economic justice.
This 5% "raise" is less than real inflation. In the past 3 years the cost of rent and groceries have skyrocketed. The poverty rate, and homeless population is increasing.
2Biden’s actions to ease housing costs
Biden’s plan to lower drug costs.
Biden’s actions to increase minimum wage. Here’s one of him telling UAW members to fight for a 40% increase.
Companies were in trouble, now they're doing incredibly well. And guess what? You should be doing incredibly well, too
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Just because he isn’t stringing words together to say your second paragraph verbatim doesn’t mean he’s not taking steps to do something about it. And the links above took literally 2 minutes of searching “Biden addresses X”
16Did you see Speff reply below? They took the time to research and share information for you. Did you read it? Will you acknowledge them?
Also, what does your comment have to do with this post? Maybe share it somewhere relevant like the million negative posts about inflation, housing, etc.
This is a win. We take wins. If we don't, life is pointless and we're just angry and feel ineffective. And when we feel ineffective, we try less, not more.
Winning begets winning. Not suggesting cheerleading. Suggesting not demoralizing those who are inspired by the win.
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because the garbage he does wont actually fix anything
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It's really nice to get an increase. During the Obama years there were a lot of federal pay freezes and during the orange idiot years he blamed us for every federal cost overrun. It been rough to work in the public sector for awhile.
48That’s a good raise, and the govvies I’ve worked with over the years deserve it.
It’s still far too small to stop the perpetual brain drain from federal agencies to government contractors. It’s going to take a lot more than 5% to keep good people in place when they can double their salary overnight by joining a contractor.
32There's a lot more than salary that's keeping me from taking a government job. When Biden was elected I checked for jobs in my field and they all involved moving to DC. No remote work at all.
So even if they paid the same I'd have to move to a very high COL area, or commute some insane distance. And I'd need to buy a whole new wardrobe. But they very much didn't pay the same. And in my current role I already work with a lot of different government agencies and contractors.
That being said, I think giving 2 million people a 5% raise is definitely going to boost poll numbers by easing the collective pinch a bit, and as the child of a former federal worker I can appreciate how significant that is.
15There’s a lot more than salary that’s keeping me from taking a government job. When Biden was elected I checked for jobs in my field and they all involved moving to DC. No remote work at all.
I think it's highly dependent on your field. If you work for departments like the IRS, the FBI or the TSA, you could do your job from many possible places because the first two have a lot of field offices and the third is at every commercial airport. I believe this raise also applies to postal workers, who are in every incorporated area in the country.
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It's not just salary for government workers. We get great benefits and strong unions. Also you know what your going to be making
5Health insurance… mother fucking health insurance.
The FEHB is some of the best health insurance there is…. I know folks who are only still doing their fed job to continue access to the great insurance.
And you get to keep it for the rest of your life if you retire. I believe you pay the premium through your annuity.
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The problem is the private sector pays more. We need to pay members of the government better than the private sector to attract the best talent and also make them immune to corruption. There is no reason a congressman’s legislative assistant with a law degree should be making $50,000/year. Obviously, they’re going to cave in and join a lobbying firm paying four times that amount. Same goes for just about any other branch of government.
28I'd take a pay cut to work for the government if I didn't have to worry... what? Like every 3 months? I could get furloughed and have trouble making ends meet because some wealthy geriatrics in Congress felt like having a dick measuring contest.
8It’s tough for that period, but you know you still have a job, and you know you’ll get that back pay. Assuming you can figure out the cash flow, you could enjoy the time off. Meanwhile in the private sector, you’d still be paycheck to paycheck, but under threat of surprise layoffs, no back pay for furloughs, no expectation of keeping a job. If for whatever reason you’re not working, not only do you have the same issues getting by, but the stress of not knowing if you’ll get a job or be paid
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Federal government has mich better working conditions:
- no fear of random layoffs
- more vacation
- pensions!!!!
- different work schedules, than a standard 9-5 (or 8-6)
1lol, what world are you living in? Yes, it’s better than retail, but for high skill jobs (which the government desperately needs) these things are not true.
- Random layoffs—sure, as long as you’re the right kind of employee
- Vacation is accumulated at an embarrassingly slow rate, especially for newer employees.
- pension. Right, but there are similarly no stock options or significant performance bonuses you find in the private sector
- you’d be surprised at the work schedules for government employees who aren’t admin assistants
Pay is so far behind still it isn’t funny.
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Lol what? The best talent? Immune to corruption? Are you kidding me?
-26You are not necessarily wrong.
But then, the parent poster's comment could be interpreted in two ways: the way you interpreted, or also the way in which both sentences are separate.
As in, we need to increase their salaries to attract the best talent and [we need to] make them immune to corruption.
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Republicans have long asserted that people employed by private companies are paid significantly less than federal workers.
It's common knowledge that you make more money in the private sector.
24And even if they didn't, "they get paid less" isn't an excuse to not pay your people more.
8I work for the federal government, and some parts of my department have lost 50%+ of their engineers to Boeing and Blue Origin in the last few years. That is completely unsustainable attrition, and yet our leadership does jack shit to try to increase our compensation (there are ways, but it takes damn near an act of Congress, or more likely, an act of God). And our leaderships atrocious attempts at dealing with the attrition problem are just driving more engineers away.
So to summarize, republicans are anti-federal workforce and are also lying sacks of shit.
5I also work for the federal government. So I know that the work that your colleagues are not around anymore to do will ultimately have to get outsourced to Boeing, BO, Raytheon, etc and with all of the acquisition overhead and profits the contractors are building in, it ends up costing the taxpayers more to do the same work. More even than the differential of the salaries that your former colleagues are enjoying.
9I'm sorry about your department.
As to your summary, I would say that they are not lying at all. Everyone who is alive and doesn't have enough money to pay them off are leeching from the system.
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It depends on what you do. As an example, legal contractors with law degrees/licenses make significantly less than their equivalents on the GS scale. They'd make more at a firm, but law firms don't really contract for the feds.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Federal employees will receive pay raises averaging 5.2 percent — more in some high-salary areas — under an order President Biden signed Thursday that delivers the biggest increase to U.S. government workers since the Carter administration.
It’s 0.6 percentage points higher than last year’s increase, which itself was the highest in two decades, and will take effect in the first full pay period of 2024, starting Jan. 14 for most federal employees.
Most lawmakers have already left Washington for the holidays, signaling the end of the legislative year and allowing Biden to finalize the pay hike with Thursday’s executive order.
The raise is split into two parts — 4.7 percent paid across the board, with the remainder varying according to the local salaries of comparable private-sector jobs.
Federal officials last year approved pay bumps for four new high-expense areas: Fresno-Madera-Hanford in California; Reno-Fernley in Nevada; Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls in New York; and Spokane-Spokane Valley-Coeur d’Alene in Washington and Idaho.
Biden has also taken several steps to stamp out — and more recently, prevent — a policy ordered by former president Donald Trump that could have enabled him to fire tens of thousands of federal workers and replace them with loyalists.
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8Good bot.
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Its paywalled, what makes it historic
4Joe Biden finalized a 5.2% federal pay raise for many civilian employees for 2024. The highest in over two decades, with the second highest being last year's.
17Wasn’t paywalled for me, but I didn’t care to read 10 paragraphs of the same thing so I just skimmed.
Found nothing historical in the article, closest was
The salary hike for the federal civilian workforce of close to 2.2 million people is the heftiest since a 9.1 percent average raise in 1980. It’s 0.6 percentage points higher than last year’s increase, which itself was the highest in two decades, and will take effect in the first full pay period of 2024, starting Jan. 14 for most federal employees.
So I guess it’s historically the second highest amount?
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Year over year there's a 17%~ inflation since 2020. Has there been a 17%~ increase in salaries since 2020 as well? No? Then it's not good enough. Better than nothing, but that's still not good enough.
2That’s the total inflation since 2020, not year over year. If it were year over year the total inflation would have been about 60%.
11Do away with this raise then, I guess? Why are you shitting on positive change
1Yeah that’s precisely what I said. Great reading comprehension there. It’s not a raise if it doesn’t keep up with inflation. Workers deserve fair compensation, not crumbs.
If you’re on fire and someone pisses all over you, are you somehow supposed to be grateful? The rich are pissing all over us and expect crumbs to suffice.
Why are you not outraged that it’s such a pittance?
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another scrap piece that only a few will be able to grab just to get media attention for the upcoming election
pure fucking trash of a person making bank off the backs of a struggling populace and asking to be elected again
"I am not Trump." should not be good enough for votes
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