Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Following years of encouragement from federal employee unions and some lawmakers, the Office of Personnel Management is set to propose ...

Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Pa., introduced a bill last week that would seek parity between how salaried and hourly federal employees are paid depending on where they live. The Locality Pay Equity Act ...

Federal employees working in central Vermont will receive a significant Christmas gift this season. While they may not know it, the federal government has added this group of people into the federal ...

New legislation filed this week in both chambers of Congress would ensure that most federal workers see parity in how they are compensated based on where in the country they live and work. The ...

The congressional jury is out on just which federal employees will benefit from a locality pay provision attached to an appropriations bill that passed the Senate last night. To be sure, the provision ...

Traditionally, locality pay rates are combined with an increase in base pay to make up the total raise that federal employees receive annually. But Obama's proposal would allocate the entire 2 percent ...

The majority of federal workers receive pay based on the General Schedule pay scale. To determine this pay scale, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management consults salary surveys and pay data from the ...

Last year, Congress asked for a study to determine whether Austin, Las Vegas, Louisville, Nashville and Raleigh, N.C., should be designated as "locality pay" areas. The president's pay advisers said ...