Federal employees will receive a 1% pay raise in 2015, as a result of Executive Order 13686, sigend by President Obama on December 19, 2014. This is the first federal pay raise since 2010. According to Government Executive, the order also implements a 1 percent pay raise for uniformed military service members, which was included in the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act, signed by the President on December 19. The Washington Post notes, however, that the raise does not apply to Congress. Political appointees are also not included due to language in the 2015 Cromnibus appropriations bill freezing pay rates of the Vice President and certain senior political appointees. Also, The president’s salary is $400,000 and can be neither increased nor decreased during an incumbent’s term.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:53:26 +0000
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