Overseas civilian workers to get 2.5% raise

Overseas civilian workers to get 2.5% raise
By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, January 6, 2008

WASHINGTON — Civilian Defense employees will see at least a 2.5 percent pay raise this year under guidelines set by the White House on Friday.

That’s smaller than the base 3 percent pay raise for military personnel worldwide and the average 3.5 percent pay bump for federal employees stateside, but it does not take into account a number of other incentives overseas civilians receive according to their assignment.

Language in the $516 billion omnibus spending bill signed into law last month set the overall federal employee pay raise at 3.5 percent.

Under Friday’s executive order outlining government salary tables, 2.5 percent of that became a base, across-the-board raise while the remainder was assigned to locality pay adjustments to compensate workers in high-cost U.S. cities.

For example, workers in Washington, D.C., will see a total 4.49 percent jump in their paychecks, while employees in Raleigh, N.C., will see only a 3.06 percent increase.


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