Even if that percentage seems meager — amounting to about $610 a year for him — the lack of a pay bump is particularly stinging for Turpin and about 230,000 other wage-grade federal workers ...

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas — Federal wage grade employees at Fort Cavazos, and all federal agencies located in the Waco wage area, will officially see a 4.75 percent increase in their paychecks in the ...

the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee, which serves as the Federal Wage System’s analog of the General Schedule’s Federal Salary Council, recommended incorporating the Federal Salary ...

Yet the nation’s wage floor has stayed stuck at $7.25 an hour. That is poverty pay, and an increase to ... In 2016, he said he wanted to raise the federal rate to at least $10, but later said ...

small business owners argue that many of them can’t afford to pay higher wages, which could prompt them to lay off staff and even close their doors. The federal minimum wage has not kept up In ...

The most recent hike to the federal minimum wage occurred on July 24, 2009, back when former President Barack Obama was still in his first year in office and the Black Eyed Peas topped the ...