When the job market is as competitive as it is today, many employers find they need to up the ante to attract top talent. This often means increasing compensation. However, bringing in new hires at ...

A group of House Democrats led by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., on Tuesday introduced legislation aimed at alleviating the impact of federal pay compression on some senior federal employees in ...

New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that the gap in wages between federal employees and their private sector counterparts is on the rise again. In 2023, federal workers made 27.54% ...

Pay, for most feds, falls along the 15 levels of the General Schedule and finer step increments in between, with base pay currently spanning from about $21,000 to just over $152,700. Under this system ...