President Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 18, finalizing a 1% pay raise for most civilian federal employees in 2026, marking the smallest adjustment since 2021. This follows an alternative pay ...

The majority of federal workers receive pay based on the General Schedule pay scale. To determine this pay scale, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management consults salary surveys and pay data from the ...

Many pay systems are used to set pay throughout the federal government. Each is applied to a specific type of employee. The three most commonly used pay systems are the following: For the sake of this ...

Air Force human resources executives at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are shaking up the venerable general schedule or “GS” pay and performance schedule that the U.S. civil service has used for ...