Congress to Increase Fed Pay Raise

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You guys are cry babies ......never satisfied, ....you should be happy that while millions of americans don't even have a job you're getting a pay raise.....God bless you guys

In 2009, there has actually been a slight deflation (-0.2%) due to the recession. http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-ra...

Basically things are holding steady in price over 2008. Now, this doesn't really mean much when people don't have a job and the economy is slowing pulling itself upwards, but it is inaccurate to say (overall) that there is inflation in 2009.

But for federal employee, this is still an average of a $500-3000 increase in pay over 2008 depending on you grade and which step you are on.

Remember Congress still has to pass this, so the locality pay projections we have made currently are just adding on a 0.5 percent increase onto the current locality pay rate. It is likely that areas localities in Florida, California, and the Northeast, could see their pay increase more

Civil Service gets 2% and the average rate of inflation is 3%. Congress wants us to think they did us a favor by splitting the this 2% into a 1.5% pay and .5% locality increases. Do the math, when your pay chart falls under "Rest of United States" (which is the majortiy of the work force) the overall increase is less than the O'bama's proposed 2% base pay increase. And they want us to think they are doing us a favor they only look out for those within the belt way.