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Biden’s historic pay raise for federal workers set to take effect
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There'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.
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.
This makes me curious on if those departments actually hire remote workers often. It appears it’s not often
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-retention/2022/09/irs-pilot-considers-expanding-remote-work-amid-hiring-challenges/
They are only just piloting remote work programs at this point.
That’s a small fry compared to their near 80k workers
Well, yes. Its hard to investigate something from a distance that's not entirely online or financial. Even then, physical evidence is at a place you'd need to go to. And for police, we do want them in the jurisdictions they're policing.
It's that including locality pay?
As I understand it, it's a 4.7% base level increase, with an additional average of 0.5% across all locality areas. So some will see an actual raise of over 5.2%, some less. But on average, it'll be about 5.2%>
Remote work situation is night and day what it was in many places since 2021