Executive Order for 2025 January Pay Raise

[Logical_Mongoose]

Biden still hasn't signed the executive order for the January pay raise.

Maybe it's a Christmas/New Year's Miracle and more than just my dumb ass sent in a letter, but if he doesn't sign anything by the end of the year FEPCA is supposed to trigger which would give us a SUBSTANTIAL pay raise.

I know there was pushing by some Democratic lawmakers to match the military's 4.5%, but that was 2 weeks ago and still nothing.

Rate the likelihood of the following situations:

1.) Biden's staff is rewording the executive order and tables to match the 4.5%. A better outcome than initially announced and expected.
2.) Biden is absolutely zooted in his old age, and his staff is phoning it in so hard right now that they won't remember to make him sign the 2% until the last minute (within the next week). Total dick-kick of a situation for us.
3.) Dark Brandon will actually come in clutch and just let FEPCA hit, blame it on old man senility, and give us the raise that NATCA National says we don't deserve.

 

[32andBelow]

No alternate pay plan!

 

[GroundClutter]

FEPCA goes in to effect.

NATCA: "I told you I would get you a pay raise"

Nick Daniels and his big wrinkly brain saves the 77 articles and gets us paid.

END

 

[njeezy08]

How much would the increase be if FEPCA goes into effect?

 

[ATOH]

Prediction is that we get the 2% and ND takes credit for it

 

[Ralph Capone]

How much would the increase be if FEPCA goes into effect?

20-30%

 

[Logical_Mongoose]

How much would the increase be if FEPCA goes into effect?

Strap in, this is about to be logical and dry AF.

This is where things get very "in the weeds" and I am willing to admit I am not a full-time policy wonk (I'm one of those smooth-brained people Nick needs to adjust his language for, apparently); but the FEPCA structure is based off the yearly Pay Agent Report.

The exact language from FEPCA states: "Directs the President to make annual adjustments in locality-based comparability payments by the amount recommended in the Pay Agent's report or by an amount determined by the President." The FEPCA adjustment was intended to make the pay disparity of the federal workforce to be 5% less than the average private sector equivalent.

Here is the Pay Agent Report that was published for the coming year.

Page 1 of the Pay Agent report (page 6 overall in the document, which I will use going forward as it is easier to reference) states there are to be 2 adjustments: an across-the-board adjustment and a locality adjustment.

The across-the-board adjustment that is tied to being .5% less than the Employment Cost Index metric, which is calculated as the overall wage increase noticed in the private sector over the preceding 12 month September-September period. According to page 8 of the report, this past year's metric was 4.5%; so the initial across-the-board adjustment would be set at 4%.

The locality adjustment obviously varies by locality. Pages 10-19 of the report explain a lot of the "how" and "why behind locality rate calculations. The adjusted locality table begins on page 26 of the report.

You would need to find your locality in the report and your current locality rate. Subtract your current locality rate from the rate in the column titled "Disparity to close and locality payment," and then add the 4% across-the-board adjustment to that number.

As an example, I will use the "Rest of US" (RoUS) locality for the calculation: The current locality adjustment for RoUS is 16.82%. In order to bring that locality within the 5% disparity gap, it would need to be adjusted to 30.65%. That would be just shy of a 14% increase (13.83%). So the locality raise would be 13.83%.

TL;DR
Adding the across-the-board adjustment would bring the total RoUS January raise/adjustment to 17.83%. I'm in the Cleveland locality, so compared to RoUS my raise would be slightly less at 16.89%. Someone in the Chicago locality would have a 26.04% raise/adjustment.

 

[IndiaKilo]

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[ClearanceClarence]

We’re in a sad state of affairs when even the remote possibility of something bigger than a 2% raise sounds like a dream come true.

 

[Logical_Mongoose]

BREAKING: Sleepy Joe stuck to the 2% and dropped that turd on our chest right before Christmas.

 

[32andBelow]

We’re in a sad state of affairs when even the remote possibility of something bigger than a 2% raise sounds like a dream come true.

 

[Raise when?]

we got fucked, again! Thank you Kamallah! Merry fucking Christmas!

 

[ClearanceClarence]

So glad NATCA continues to endorse these fucking idiots that are “on our side.” If you ever vote for a democrat because you think they’re going to be friendly to feds/unions/controllers, let this be a fucking lesson to you.

 

[DankVectorz]

we got fucked, again! Thank you Kamallah! Merry fucking Christmas!

What does Kamala have to do with it?

 

[Raise when?]

What does Kamala have to do with it?

it was her idea, biden said so

 

[Raise when?]

here all. he has no bills, his shed cost $8k. Let's do it brothers, no bills ftw, we can keep up. He don't have any bills now.

 

[Hal9000]

There's plans for most feds to get 1.7% in August, luckily we locked into 1.6 a while month before. If you count every day 1.7 is 40 times larger then 1.6% View attachment 9924

I mean it's a fantastic deal, we're just on the wrong side of it.

 

[Raise when?]

Guys, dont forget, turn off and tune in! It can wait. Your raise can wait , until 2070

 

[GroundClutter]

 

[32andBelow]

There's plans for most feds to get 1.7% in August, luckily we locked into 1.6 a while month before. If you count every day 1.7 is 40 times larger then 1.6% View attachment 9924

I think this just means that what was announced in August