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President Joe Biden has given federal workers their biggest pay raise in more than 40 years even as many Americans are finding their salaries worth increasingly less as wages fail to keep up with Bidenflation.
Biden declared this giant pay raise on his own hook for more than two million government workers by issuing his Dec. 21 “Executive order on the adjustments of certain rates of pay,” which affects the “the rates of basic pay or salaries of the statutory pay systems.”
As maintained in his fiscal 2024 budget proposal revealed last March, Biden has now implemented a 4.7 percent across-the-board hike in basic pay, according to the website Government Executive. He is also preparing to give the military a 5.2 percent pay raise.
Up to 33,300 federal employees will also see a larger pay raise than expected because the Biden administration revamped its locality pay area map to adjust for the same high rate of inflation that Biden caused. There are 53 locality pay areas across the country and each one is configured on the cost-of-living data specific to each zone, Government Executive added in a report in November.
The new locality pay numbers were created in 2022 by Biden’s pay agent board, a group made up of Office of Personnel Management Director Kiran Ahuja, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young, and acting Labor Secretary Julie Su.
In other words, as the number of Americans living in poverty rose under Biden, the president’s failed economic policy caused the cost of living to soar, and now he is giving his government workers higher pay to compensate for the inflationary forces he caused. As the saying goes, it’s a nice job if you can get it.
The government worker pay raise goes into effect for the first full pay period of 2024, beginning on Jan. 14 for most government workers.
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