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James48843
12-26-2007, 07:38 PM
See tomorrow's news here first.

Today, the OPM released the President's pay agent recommendations for how Locality Pay should be addressed for Fy-2009.

Under the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act, (FEPCA), the difference between private sector salaries and Federal salaries was supposed to be closed over a nine year period starting in 1994. Of course, ever since then, no President has followed the law to award raises, instead they have "declared emergencies" and found was around giving what the law intended.

Anyway, each year the group known as "The President's Pay Agent" makes a report on what the NEXT year should have as locality pay in order to meet the law's requirements. The "President's Pay Agent" are advised by a group called the "Federal Salary Council". If you look up who THEY are, you'll see some familiar names. Most are also the same people as the people who sit on the ETAC. Hmmmmm.... Must be a real shortage of experts in DC who can represent employees, eh?

And today, OPM released the data for FY-2009.

Not surprizingly, the group says the most underpaid workers are in....Washington D.C.

But here is the link to all the cities, and their report:

http://www.opm.gov/oca/payagent/2007/index.asp

I'm sure you'll see it all tomorrow in the Federal news sources...but we wanted to scoop them all. And we did.

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST, ON TSPTALK.COM