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Post by aljudgmental on Dec 29, 2019 19:23:39 GMT -5
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Post by SPN Lifer on Dec 29, 2019 19:31:13 GMT -5
This link has the tables from 2020 back to 2011 and earlier.
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Post by Burt Macklin on Dec 29, 2019 19:36:11 GMT -5
New max is $181,500. OPM salary tables are out already. 2.6% increase for the folks already at the top of the scale.
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Post by hopefalj on Dec 29, 2019 19:43:49 GMT -5
New max is $181,500. OPM salary tables are out already. 2.6% increase for the folks already at the top of the scale. Which is still the highest raise for any of our capped brethren in at least a decade, I believe.
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Post by jagvet on Dec 30, 2019 8:44:13 GMT -5
hopefulalj is right. Now please don't take this the wrong way. I am grateful to have been paid and overpaid for much of my career. In my last job, I negotiated GS-15, Step 10 when I was hired. Every year, any raises I got were well under the advertised percentage because of maxing out. I am not complaining, but as costs of everything increased, it was a bit frustrating. Same situation at OHO. Raises serve to keep employees enthusiastic and not thinking about leaving. In my last job, there sometimes annual awards. When the SES or political people liked me, I'd get a small award. When they didn't, I didn't get anything. You want a real shock? Look at the giant SES awards during the last administration. I don't know what they are now because I'm not in management now, but some real incompetent SESs were getting $15,000-20,000 when GS-types were getting $1,000 from 2009-16.
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Post by christina on Dec 30, 2019 9:36:54 GMT -5
Yeah the ses awards are crazy
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Post by arkstfan on Dec 30, 2019 22:02:21 GMT -5
I've been in a fit of jealousy ever since a civilian DoD employee was beefing that his performance award was only one day of paid leave and the cash equivalent of a week of pay. In the past he been getting a week of paid leave as a bonus. Most I ever got as a writer was I think $700.
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Post by HallmarkFan on Jan 4, 2020 15:11:13 GMT -5
Great info -- thanks for posting all this!
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Post by movingon on Jan 11, 2020 8:35:59 GMT -5
I just received my first paycheck post the 3.1% adjustment. My take home was $33 less than last year. I am anxious to review my statement, but regardless, I very disappointed to have less in my take home than last year. I have always thought I would spend my entire career in public service, but after 18 years (and 23 to go) it is becoming more and more difficult.
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Post by hopefalj on Jan 11, 2020 9:20:29 GMT -5
I just received my first paycheck post the 3.1% adjustment. My take home was $33 less than last year. I am anxious to review my statement, but regardless, I very disappointed to have less in my take home than last year. I have always thought I would spend my entire career in public service, but after 18 years (and 23 to go) it is becoming more and more difficult. Check your earnings statement. We're in the first pay period subject to the raise, so your next paycheck will be the first to reflect the raise. This is the last of the old rate.
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Post by Pixie on Jan 11, 2020 9:21:04 GMT -5
I just received my first paycheck post the 3.1% adjustment. My take home was $33 less than last year. I am anxious to review my statement, but regardless, I very disappointed to have less in my take home than last year. I have always thought I would spend my entire career in public service, but after 18 years (and 23 to go) it is becoming more and more difficult. Shoot for 30 to 35 (doable) instead of 41. Hopefully you have been contributing to the C fund over your career and will continue to do so. When the market drops, and it will, just remember you are now buying expensive stocks at bargain basement prices. In addition to my TSP C fund, I have a non qualified holding at Vanguard in growth mutual funds. When the market drops, and there is panic in the streets, that's when I buy. It has now been 3 or 4 years since the last drop, and I took maximum advantage of that panicked sell off, but I am ready to jump back in with all four feet when it happens again. So, my point is the C Fund is the way to grow wealth over the long term. A career of 30 to 35 years with the feds, and disciplined contributions to the C fund over those years, will yield a comfortable retirement. Pixie
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Post by nylawyer on Jan 11, 2020 11:28:03 GMT -5
I just received my first paycheck post the 3.1% adjustment. My take home was $33 less than last year. I am anxious to review my statement, but regardless, I very disappointed to have less in my take home than last year. I have always thought I would spend my entire career in public service, but after 18 years (and 23 to go) it is becoming more and more difficult. If you are comparing this check to your last one of last year, keep in mind you may have hit you max contribution to SS earlier in the year- need to compare this check to one from early last year. I saw my direct deposit had gone down several hundred dollars and was a little freaked until I remembered that.
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Post by phoenixrisingALJ on Jan 11, 2020 13:12:37 GMT -5
The current pay is for pp 26... when it moves to pp1- that is the check that will reflect the new rates.
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Post by arkstfan on Jan 11, 2020 16:17:32 GMT -5
I just received my first paycheck post the 3.1% adjustment. My take home was $33 less than last year. I am anxious to review my statement, but regardless, I very disappointed to have less in my take home than last year. I have always thought I would spend my entire career in public service, but after 18 years (and 23 to go) it is becoming more and more difficult. Were you at the maximum for Social Security withholding in 2019? My earnings statement for this check reflects my 2019 rate of pay, my old insurance plan premium, the HSA contribution I made in addition to my high deductible plan, and the 2019 premiums for dental and vision AND the 2020 health care FSA contribution to go with my new lower deductible health plan. I expect that the next check will reflect the 2020 rate of pay which will be higher, a net gain from choosing a more expensive health insurance premium but discontinuing my HSA contribution and a small increase of less than $5 from changing dental and vision plans.
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Post by johnthornton on Jan 11, 2020 20:02:02 GMT -5
The amount of everyone's raise should now be in their electronic personnel folder. I am maxed out but saw a bump of around $4500.00.
The raise was NOT reflected in my last pay check.
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Post by Ace Midnight on Jan 12, 2020 9:27:02 GMT -5
Just to clear up things - your net pay on Friday, January 10th, 2020, WAS Pay Period 1, but DID NOT (at least in most cases) have the new pay scale applied.
I know annual raises have not been a regular thing over the past few years, but the tables were published relatively late, New Year's Day hit in the middle of the week and just a number of things may have glitched things. I looked back at the 2016 annual bump, and that one may have been approved late as it did not hit until PP 3.
The process goes - Legislative/Presidential approval -> OPM updates the system -> You get an SF-50 showing the increase -> THEN it hits on your next LES.
In this case most of us (at SSA) got the SF-50 yesterday. Happy Pay Raise, folks.
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Post by mercury on Jan 12, 2020 11:03:46 GMT -5
Just to clear up things - your net pay on Friday, January 10th, 2020, WAS Pay Period 1, but DID NOT (at least in most cases) have the new pay scale applied. I know annual raises have not been a regular thing over the past few years, but the tables were published relatively late, New Year's Day hit in the middle of the week and just a number of things may have glitched things. I looked back at the 2016 annual bump, and that one may have been approved late as it did not hit until PP 3. The process goes - Legislative/Presidential approval -> OPM updates the system -> You get an SF-50 showing the increase -> THEN it hits on your next LES. In this case most of us (at SSA) got the SF-50 yesterday. Happy Pay Raise, folks. To further elaborate, it’s usually the first FULL pay period of the calendar year the pay raise takes effect, not the end of the leave year.
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Post by Ace Midnight on Jan 12, 2020 12:17:16 GMT -5
And, there is probably something to that - the first pay period fully in the next calendar. Same goes for any adjustment to your FEHB elections, etc.
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Post by phoenixrisingALJ on Jan 13, 2020 10:26:24 GMT -5
Just to clear up things - your net pay on Friday, January 10th, 2020, WAS Pay Period 1, but DID NOT (at least in most cases) have the new pay scale applied. I know annual raises have not been a regular thing over the past few years, but the tables were published relatively late, New Year's Day hit in the middle of the week and just a number of things may have glitched things. I looked back at the 2016 annual bump, and that one may have been approved late as it did not hit until PP 3. The process goes - Legislative/Presidential approval -> OPM updates the system -> You get an SF-50 showing the increase -> THEN it hits on your next LES. In this case most of us (at SSA) got the SF-50 yesterday. Happy Pay Raise, folks. Looking at my earnings and leave statement - we just received pay for weeks 12/22/2019-1/4/2020 and that is further marked as PO #26. The pay adjustment will come effective PP1 - which is upcoming.
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Post by stevil on Jan 13, 2020 11:06:05 GMT -5
Don't worry, be happy! Wait till your 1/24/2020 paycheck. 3.1 is an absolute election year gift. Retired military pay only got 1.6 as it is tied to the CPI or some such formula. Don't forget that we also get nice WIGI raises until we hit the cap. It would be unseemly for us of all feds to gripe about pay!
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