Senior executives may wait months for new pay rates to kick in

It may take several months for members of the Senior Executive Service to benefit from increased pay rates authorized by Congress last fall.

• Shawn Zeller
• January 9, 2004

The End Is Near

Details about the Homeland Security Department’s new personnel system are forthcoming, officials say.

• Shawn Zeller
• January 8, 2004

TSP funds close on a high note in 2003

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• January 6, 2004

Bush sets 2004 pay raise at 2 percent

President Bush issued an executive order on Dec. 30 formally implementing a 2 percent civil service pay raise in 2004, but Congress is poised to grant a significantly higher increase in the pending fiscal 2004 omnibus budget bill.

• Amelia Gruber
• December 31, 2003

Defense contracting employees to vote on union representation

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• December 22, 2003

Senior Foreign Service members decry executive pay changes

• Shawn Zeller
• December 18, 2003

Holiday Hangovers

The things Congress didn’t do for federal employees in 2003.

• Shawn Zeller
• December 18, 2003

The early bidding on 2005 pay raise: 2.5 percent

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• December 15, 2003

Mileage reimbursement rates to increase in 2004

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• December 15, 2003

Overtime pay cap raised for supervisors

High-ranking General Schedule employees who work overtime have won a long battle to increase their compensation, thanks to a provision in the 2004 Defense Authorization Act.

• Shawn Zeller
• December 12, 2003

Raising the Roof

Senior Executive Service members will get some salary stretching room in 2004.

• Shawn Zeller
• December 11, 2003

MSPB to close offices, lay off employees

• Shawn Zeller
• December 10, 2003

First special rates settlement checks in the mail

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• December 10, 2003

President gives federal employees extra Christmas holiday

• Shawn Zeller
• December 9, 2003

House passes spending bill with 4.1 percent civil service pay raise

• Peter Cohn
• December 8, 2003

Pay Bonding

A look at how three agencies have tackled the challenge of linking pay to performance.

• Shawn Zeller
• December 4, 2003

TSP funds up across the board in November

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• December 3, 2003

Senate inaction on huge spending bill could delay pay raise

• Peter Cohn and April Fulton
• November 25, 2003

OPM raises flexible spending account ceiling to $4,000

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• November 21, 2003

Performance Problem

The Defense Department is taking on a task that has eluded virtually every other federal agency: creating an effective, credible, trusted performance evaluation system.

• Shawn Zeller
• November 20, 2003