Raise Looks Like 1.7 Plus Locality Amount

Meanwhile, the salary council—made up of agency and union representatives and pay experts—is working on the assumption that the January 2007 general schedule pay raise will have a 1.7 percent across-the-board component and that the funds for whatever amount is provided on top of that will be divided up as locality pay. A pending appropriations bill would provide a 2.7 percent total raise, although with military personnel in line for 2.2 percent, there’s a strong chance the federal employee total will be reduced to 2.2 percent. That would leave the funds for either 1 percentage point or 0.5 percentage points to be split as locality pay. The across the board component is 1.7 percent by default under current law.