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.