Federal Manager's Daily Report

The Omnibus Appropriations bill for fiscal 2004 gives

245,000

federal civilian employees under the Federal Wage Survey a

3.9% raise, after a House provision linking FWS raises to

General Schedule and military raises, according to the

Federal Managers Association.

FMA advocates:

Guaranteeing annual wage-grade raises;

Lifting caps on wage-grade raises;

Raising wage-grade pay at the Department of Defense to that

of Veteran’s Affairs;

Using the federal salary council’s 32 localities to survey

and administer the federal wage schedule rather than the

current 113 localities and,

Shifting responsibility for data collection from the

Department of Defense to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,

which already collects data for other federal pay systems

such as GS.