Pay & Benefits

Buyout Considerations

Factors to weigh in deciding whether to accept an offer to retire early.

Pay & Benefits

Service members weigh in on pay versus benefits

Survey finds compensation preferences vary among the ranks.

Pay & Benefits

Navy rejects benefits for laid-off sailors

Congressman’s plea to delay layoffs for 172 sailors nearing retirement benefit-eligibility is turned down.

Pay & Benefits

Women a minority in six-figure government jobs

Women hold 42 percent of Washington positions paying more than $100,000.

Pay & Benefits

Is Telework Good For Your Health?

Tell us whether working outside the office allows you to adopt a more wholesome lifestyle.

Management

OMB plans for automatic cuts, urges Congress to find sequestration alternative

The cuts ‘would be terrible for our country,’ Jeff Zients says.

Pay & Benefits

Firefighters win health care benefits

President Obama orders agencies to extend health insurance to part-time workers who battle wildfires.

Pay & Benefits

White House takes appropriators to task on pay, TRICARE

Obama threatens to veto yet another spending bill that omits a civilian pay raise.

Pay & Benefits

NASA offers buyouts to Goddard employees

117 workers at the Greenbelt flight center will receive buyout or early retirement options.

Pay & Benefits

USPS estimates 7,400 employees may take buyout offers

Thousands who signed up by the July 2 deadline still can change their minds.

Pay & Benefits

Need Money? Save Your Sick Leave

The advantages of hoarding this valuable benefit.

Pay & Benefits

Retirement claims backlog slowly shrinks

OPM continues to steadily chip away at the pileup, but retirees are still frustrated.

Pay & Benefits

VA temporarily halts employee pay downgrades

Decision comes less than a month after protest.

Pay & Benefits

Agencies dish out more in student loan repayments

Report on 2010 spending finds the benefit helped with recruitment and retention.

Pay & Benefits

Wielding the Ax

Firing a fed is not easy, but it’s not mission impossible either.

Management

Watchdog dismisses TRICARE bid protest

Longtime contractor loses multibillion-dollar award to manage military health care.