The recently unveiled 2026 federal budget proposal has stirred considerable debate, especially regarding the decision to implement a pay freeze ...

The Department of Education and the Treasury Department are resuming collections for about five million defaulted student ...

Federal wildland firefighters secured a permanent pay raise Friday after years of waiting for Congress to answer their plea. Included in the spending bill approved by Congress is a new pay scale ...

Only twelve states have smaller percentages of federal workers, although their rates are fairly close to Oregon’s. The highest rate is ... the average wage statewide. The feds pay better in ...

where you'll find the federal government's General Schedule Pay Scale. Consider this example: If you are offered a job as a GS 9, the 2016 first "step" in Grade 9, according to the GS Pay Scale ...

On Tuesday, OPM finalized a rule that will raise the wages ... to the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee (FRPAC) in September 2023 advocating for it to address the pay disparity.

Investopedia / Madelyn Goodnight A wage expense is a type of variable cost incurred by businesses to pay their hourly employees ... wage rates or accept the federal rate as the state's minimum.

Revenue rose 2% over last year, thanks to rate ... of CEO pay to median employee pay is 64 to 1, down from 72 to 1 last year. Besides an "outstanding performance year," higher wages are due ...

A proposed rule change would end pay disparities between hourly and salaried federal employees and boost pay for about 2,100 Pennsylvania workers, including some at the Tobyhanna Army Depot in ...

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 ...