Proposed Federal Employee Pay Raise 2021

This increased the paychecks of over 2 million federal employees.

Proposed federal employee pay raise 2021. General schedule gs payscale table for 2021. But in 2020 president trump transmitted his alternative pay plan for calendar year 2021 to congress on february 10th. Under this plan there would not be an adjustment to the pay rates in locality pay rates.

Normally an alternative pay plan is proposed in august. The move marks a reversal for the administration which had previously proposed a 1 across the board pay increase for federal workers as part of its fiscal 2021 budget plan. Each year the new pay rates go into effect on january 1st.

President trump s plan was to increase federal pay rates by one percent in 2021. 2021 federal pay raise proposed at 3 5. This year the general schedule base payscale received a 2 6 across the board pay raise.

The usual federal employee advocates in congress have called for a 3 raise next year a rate that s in line with what military members are expected to receive in 2021. Base pay rates are established in the congressional budget or by executive order in lieu of a budget. Congressman gerry connolly d va and senator brian schatz d hi reintroduced the federal adjustment of income rates fair act last week which would provide federal employees a 3 5 percent pay increase in 2021.

The proposed pay raise for the 2021 calendar year that will affect all pay scales is 1 percent. Cost of living adjustments for social security recipients will increase by 1 3 percent in 2021 an amount that employee groups worry will fall behind inflation. But the calls for a bigger raise are simply that and they re not especially helpful when it seems like everyone in congress is asking for something.

A gs 13 step 3 federal employee would receive an effective raise of 2 128 00 in 2021 from 81 799 00 per year based on the 2020 gs base table to 83 927 00 per year. If the 3 5 pay raise were to be passed for 2021 it will be the first time in over a decade the gs pay raise is 3 and over in total. On average federal employees receive 1 3 raise each year.