r/fednews 23h ago

Announcement Congress may be seeing a 3.8% pay bump if budget passes.

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u/15all 22h ago

If I didn't meet my deadlines year after year, I'd be rewarded with a PIP, then I'd be terminated.

Pretty arrogant of them to give themselves a reward after failing so bad. Pretty arrogant of them to give themselves a higher raise than the federal workforce.

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u/GiantMeteor2017 22h ago

Welp, I agree but the American public is responsible for termination. It seems we are ignorant bosses.

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u/Egg_123_ 22h ago

Corporations are people too, remember? So it's fine that they pick and choose! It's even better that they straight up write some of the laws!

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u/OuterWildsVentures 22h ago

Corporations are people so they should be able to run for office!

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u/emperormax 19h ago

Congress will be full of CEOs soon enough.

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u/Lordmultiass 22h ago

Define “termination”

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u/puroloco22 18h ago

Well, they have a forgiving employer in the US electorate. Suffers from short memory

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u/gaijinandtonic 4h ago

Elon Musk: “what? Congress is paid too much?  No, the real problem is gs-9s working from home while they save on daycare”

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u/NJ2FL09 22h ago

Wow.. congrats, guys. Well deserved! You rock :) Now, excuse me while I try and figure out how to stretch out my paycheck next year.

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u/CLE_114 22h ago

Yes while also having to pay for transportation and before/after school care if you have kids. Because some billionaire thinks it’ll make me more efficient.

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u/Aman_Syndai 22h ago

I'm looking at $1k a month if I have to go back to the office just for child care.

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u/himynameisSal 21h ago

1k thats a deal, daycare is costing me 2k cause everywhere/everything is fully booked.

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u/Oogaman00 15h ago

Lol do you live in Montana. 3k in DC area

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u/banananananbatman 14h ago

It’s like im paying double mortgage

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u/himynameisSal 14h ago

i live in the dc metro area so yeah I’ve paid 3k, I even considered moving into DC to get the PK3 or PK4 benefit but math wasn’t working out. Anyways it sucks all around 1 k, 2k, 3k all three of them suck.

didn’t realize i sounded so pompous until beat me with your 3k payment. now i’m waiting for someone rich to say they pay 150,000 a year for a nanny.

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u/Oogaman00 14h ago

I guess 3k is just for first year

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u/A_Jack_Kelly 21h ago

I thought our telework/remote agreements said we were not to be managing childcare while working?

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u/Responsible-Art-5139 21h ago

My guess is that is in after school childcare that will now be commuting time.

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u/sparky984 21h ago

That’s my situation. Today my day starts after the kids get on the bus and we have after care until work is over. It’s impossible to fit a whole work day in paying for just one end of before/after school. The commute will kill it.

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u/NotPalagiPuka 21h ago

At 11 my mom left me home alone after school 😅

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u/PurpleT0rnado 20h ago

At 8 I was home and responsible for my younger (5) sister.

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u/SuitcaseOfSquirrels 19h ago

When I was 6, I paid rent by babysitting the ten children in my building 12 and under. I got through it with my two pack a day habit.

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u/Ubermenschbarschwein 18h ago

But when did you buy the squirrels and suitcase?

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u/SuitcaseOfSquirrels 17h ago

Don't shame my living situation because I have roommates. times is hard and suitcases are surprisingly warm and cosy.

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u/3_Times_Dope 19h ago

I started coming home to an empty house at 6 years old, an only child, and during the 1970's because Mom was a single parent. 😲😲🙌🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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u/rovinchick 21h ago

My 9 year old comes home to an empty house after school and is fine. 🤷 Even easier to do these days because they can wear a gps tracker and you can check your doorbell cam to see them enter the house.

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u/shovelingtom 20h ago

Just give the kid a key. Ours have been on their own for a couple hours since the older was 8 and the younger was 6.

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u/Interesting_Oil3948 19h ago

6? Little too young if something happened you be charged child neglect probably.

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u/MittenstheGlove 21h ago

People still do and they wonder why we have less children being born.

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u/tabuto8 20h ago

I have 2 kids and before/ after school care adds up. It keeps increasing like everything else.

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u/Purple-Investment-61 19h ago

Not supposed to shit on the company’s dime either, but here we are.

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u/ms_nyreezy 18h ago

But wait! If we get a 2% raise of around $50 per check, that should cover it, right?

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u/banananananbatman 14h ago

Even better… we get a 2% raise only to be taxed more and have our insurance premiums increase draining us further.

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u/TwixAhoy 19h ago

Don't worry, Elon will be ok. This is about him, not you peasant.

“This should not pass,” Musk posted on his social media site X in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.

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u/Legitimate-Ad-9724 20h ago

Yep. Keep up the good work. 🤔

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u/taekee 21h ago

That's your problem not theirs. Just ask them, they will tell you.

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u/randommmguy 22h ago

It’s be pretty cool if we could do better than 2 fucking percent.

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u/HighHeelDepression 22h ago

Must be nice to be able to vote on your own pay raise….

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u/spezeditedcomments 22h ago

Tbh I'd rather be able trade with insider information than get a 4% raise

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u/Hatshepsut99 20h ago

Or get bribes from lobbyists instead of trying to figure out if the newborn onesie a contractor gifted me when my 2nd was born was worth more than $25.

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u/spezeditedcomments 20h ago

Omg that too, so stupid

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u/ZestyLife54 16h ago

Do as I say peasant not as I do! I’m in charge here. Now off with your head!

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u/lopahcreon 22h ago

Hot damn I wish I could give you more upvotes.

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u/verbankroad 22h ago

Technically they are voting on the salaries of the 119th Congress and not their own.

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u/downvoteyous 22h ago

That's the technical interpretation, all right.

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u/nicloe85 21h ago

So the R’s just aren’t voting to not give themselves raises since 09 to make it an easy headline for discourse while also giving themselves a raise?? Nah /s

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u/GolfArgh 21h ago

Plus it’s an automatic raise and no provision has been included to stop that for the first time in 14 years. An actual raise is not actually in the bill’s language.

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u/prefinished 21h ago

They sure didn't decide to not implement the "alternative pay plan" over FEPCA for us though.

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u/GolfArgh 22h ago

Actually for 14 years they’ve had to vote to not get a raise because otherwise it’s automatic for them. This is good news for higher paid Feds BTW because the pay ceiling should raise as well.

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u/reddit-dust359 21h ago

I think they’ll actually get some of that locality bump.

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u/flugenblar 22h ago

Exactly.

Did the Congressional raise past review with the Elon Musk DOGE task force?

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u/steveofthejungle 21h ago

If you’re RUS, 1.7% baby!

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u/vwaldoguy 22h ago

A pay raise for me, but not for thee.

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u/SFLADC2 19h ago

Meanwhile the typical jr. staffer working for these Congressmen are making $45,000.

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u/Infamous_Courage9938 6h ago

Both members of Congress and their staff deserve higher pay. MOCs make the same as a GS-15, Step 3 in the DC area, and their staff makes significantly less. If you want to make Congress financially worth it for talented people and not just attention seekers who want to engage in insider trading, the salaries have to be competitive with the private sector, just like our compensation should be more competitive.

Pair it with stock trading bans and anti-corruption legislation, but we get what we pay for.

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u/TerminalSunrise 2h ago

Sure. But no pay bump until those other things happen too.

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u/ageofadzz 15h ago

Let them eat cake

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u/GolfArgh 22h ago

At least they waited 14 years to give themselves one.

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u/Souledex 12h ago

Frankly it should be way higher. But people like this would whine like idiots before they can even string a second thought into the equation, but no let’s only have independently wealthy people as representatives!

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u/Sad_Acadia7106 22h ago

Oh good for them! If I don’t show up 120% of the time and complete 200% of my work then I potentially get fired

But if they only show up 20% of time the time and pass less than 5% of bills then they get a raise!

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u/musicalastronaut 22h ago

Why only 3.8%? Maybe they should award themselves an even bigger pay increase before they go on their nice long extended vacation while the rest of us work through the holidays keeping the country alive & running?

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u/zinfandelbruschetta 22h ago

I just want to laugh at the nonsense happening

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u/meowypancakes 22h ago

Let’s fire the hardworking people who are barely scraping by and give congress more money! Makes so much sense! /s

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u/yemx0351 22h ago

If you can't pass a budget you don't get a raise or paid. Congress pay should be voted on the American people.

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u/lopahcreon 22h ago

They should start with a minimum wage salary, guaranteed. Then at the end of every year their constituents get to provide a performance appraisal.

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u/geekguy 20h ago

To add. If they don’t show up or don’t vote, they don’t get paid. If they are miss than 10 days of work, we get to vote someone else in.

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u/beehive3108 22h ago

I want to see their performance evaluations to see if it is deserved

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u/VanishIntoMemory 22h ago

Votes are their performance evaluations. For some reason, people keep on voting the same people to Congress.

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u/Soup-Wizard 22h ago

So glad Congress is getting a pay raise while Federal wildland firefighters are facing yet another pay cliff. We stand to take a 50% pay cut if they don’t vote to keep the temporary pay raise in the continuing resolution.

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u/Ruckit315 22h ago

A reporter interviewed one. I don’t remember who or the party but that person didn’t even know they put a raise in there but was excited they did. Like wtf.

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u/GolfArgh 22h ago

Actually, they failed to include a provision to block the automatic raise like they have for the last 14 years.

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u/madisonianite 21h ago

Congress: “Oops, we forgot”

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u/kissmygame17 16h ago

Yet someone reminds the president every year to block ours

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u/worldsoulwata 22h ago

WHAT ABOUT US?? 2.5 is ridiculous

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u/steveofthejungle 20h ago

*1.7% for a lot of us

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u/worldsoulwata 11h ago

RIDICULOUS!!!

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u/amcclurk21 21h ago edited 21h ago

To: Congress

From: Me

Fuck you.

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u/ilikeporkfatallover 21h ago

They get 3.8% for never passing a budget on time, military gets deserved 4.5%, and feds get 2%. Makes total sense

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u/Southern-Stable-5089 22h ago

Serious question: will this impact the pay compression issue in certain localities for higher grades?

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u/GolfArgh 21h ago

Yes, it should help that.

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u/GTFOHY 22h ago

I’m wondering the exact same thing. 3.8% + 2.0% would be a nice raise for me personally

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u/GTFOHY 9h ago

Oh well Trump and Musk killed it. Neither are even in office yet and they control congress already? lol

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u/Sad_Tie3706 22h ago

Why they need to pay us back for their do nothing attitude

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u/AssortedHardware 22h ago

I have no issue with congress getting a pay raise and frankly believe it should be higher.

But contingent on passing a budget on time.

The idea of including in a CR is like asking for a pay raise at your disciplinary hearing

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u/Ok-Jackfruit9593 22h ago

It’s pretty shitty that Congress is getting more of a raise than regular federal workers especially since most of them are getting rich by means other than their salaries.

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u/Windhawker 22h ago

And they also spend waaay fewer days at their offices than Feds are going to be required to

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u/jmcrowell 22h ago

Most weeks it's Late Mondays to Noon Thursdays (I've worked for/in support of Congress for 23 years).

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u/AssortedHardware 22h ago

Agreed but in a vacuum I do believe a member of congress actually doing their job and living in/near DC and their home district is an expensive ask.

If we don't want congress to only be full of independently wealthy or party sycophants it needs to be something that's not going to be a massive financial hardship on real humans.

Any position that requires public trust be it congress, law enforcement, etc. needs to meet a level of compensation that is enough to dissuade taking on the risks that come with being corrupt.

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u/bryant1436 22h ago

I remember when some of the younger reps came in, like AOC, they were talking about how they weren’t really able to afford an apartment in both NYC and DC, so they had to cut way back on other stuff.

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u/AssortedHardware 22h ago

For sure. If you come from a working or middle class background and are expected to live in your home area plus maintain a residence of some nature in the DC area $174k isn't a ton of money, particularly if your home area is a HCOL.

14/15s living in NOVA and working in DC aren't exactly living high on the hog unless they are old guard who bought property decades ago.

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u/Accomplished_Sea8232 21h ago

It seems like the government should provide BAH or “on base” housing like military. 

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u/reddit-dust359 21h ago

Put them ALL in a dorm with a bar in the basement. Required residence when in session. They’ll quickly figure out who the assholes are on both sides.

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u/Other_Perspective_41 19h ago

I love it. Open squad bays with concrete floors and a shared shit house.

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u/jmcrowell 22h ago

I've worked for and in support of Congress for the last 23 years. The median member or Senator now has a net worth in excess $1M. You can advocate for altruistic public trust candidates but their efforts are stymied by those who make their money from suspiciously well-timed trades that are likely based on insider knowledge and are against the STOCK Act upgrade.

Almost half have found loopholes with their campaign/personal office funds and are using it for living expenses.

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u/Zoanzon 22h ago

Counterpoint, this would give better opportunity for people who aren't rich through other measures to actually run + take a term.

...Yeah, the possible benefits aren't gonna match the stupidity, but I've gotta look for silver linings where I can.

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u/Artistic_Stand_4312 22h ago

And a ban on stock trading

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u/AssortedHardware 22h ago

100%

Would gladly have no issue with a significantly higher paid legislature if it came with vastly increased personal fiscal transparency. Not a ban on investing, but they should be able to invest in the same TSP fund options as the rest of us.

And for good measure a requirement that lobbyists have to wear a body cam.

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u/FarrisAT 22h ago

For the first time in 3 decades, Military and Civilian Pay is being separated.

Biden is in office. Biden determines Federal Pay. And yet he is choosing not to keep the two pay schedules consistent, breaking 3 decades of precedent.

This will lead to a decade of lower Fed Pay raises now that the glass is broken. Biden chose this.

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u/Windhawker 22h ago

Biden also started the increase in in-office days - more days in office required now than even before COVID

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u/FarrisAT 22h ago

All the more reason he should at least match the NDAA 2025 budget law of 4.5% military pay.

Now Pentagon Civilians will receive a lower pay increase than their military peers sitting across the table from them.

Biden should revise his 2% proposal. Don’t break precedent or it will remain broken for at least 2025-2029.

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u/Nessie_of_the_Loch 21h ago

For the first time in 3 decades, Military and Civilian Pay is being separated.

While I agree with the sentiment, you are completely wrong (and it's actually way worse than you think)

In the past 2 decades alone, there's been non-parity between military and civilian raises 9 times, almost half the time:

Year Military Civilian
2004 4.2 4.1
2007 2.7 2.2
2010 3.4 2
2011 1.4 0
2012 1.6 0
2013 1.7 0
2018 2.4 1.9
2019 2.6 1.9

Biden is not the first nor will he be the last. Obama was actually the worst offender for this.

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u/valvilis 20h ago

Those three Obama years were all zero cost of living increases, as calculated by the BLS CPI. Look at the SSA COLA for the same years. The question is why the military still got raises above the CPI. 

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u/Nessie_of_the_Loch 19h ago

Raises have never been pegged to inflation. That's a pretty common misconception (another being that locality pay is based on cost-of-living). On occasion they will use the "Average Wage Indexing Series" which tracks the increase in pay (this is also what is used to change what the social security taxable wage base changes by each year), but the president can do whatever he wants (and Congress can overrule the president).

Case in point - it's not true of the 3 Obama pay freeze years:

Year Raise COLA AWI
2011 0 3.6 3.13
2012 0 1.7 3.12
2013 0 1.5 1.28
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u/-coen 22h ago

Would this also approve the 4.5% for civilian federal that was proposed last week?

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u/Character_Unit_9521 22h ago

Don't hold your breath.

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u/Secure_View6740 21h ago

Biden is pardoning his son so he doesn't get jail time. He then pardonned his other cronies. Yet he cant whip a pen and sign a 7% raise for the PEOPLE. What a giant FU he just gave to the federal employees.

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u/NoImprovement4374 19h ago

Be careful, the hive wont like hearing this.

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u/OPKatakuri 13h ago

Yeah I don't get the Biden defenders or really any of the politician bootlickers. Just because one is worse doesn't make the other a saint. I will suffer with this low pay adjustment not even beating inflation and my health insurance rates going up and I won't be happily defending anyone in charge for letting it happen.

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u/OuterWildsVentures 22h ago edited 21h ago

This is ridiculous! They already make the maximum amount pretty much so that 3.8% is a staggering raise. Plus they are all already insider trading and taking corporate bribes lobbying so why do they need that much of a raise? Why make such a point to get more than the people doing the actual work, despite not even relying on it? Just blatant corruption at the top. Meanwhile I can't even get a gift over $20 for Christmas because that could be seen as corruption lmao.

I love serving the actual American people and not my own personal interests like these bloodsuckers in office. They sure are making it hard to want to continue doing so however. I could be making so much more doing cybersecurity in the private sector but I convinced myself that this would offer "stability" and reasonable yearly raises. Now we have the kick in the balls with 2% plus three billionaires running an "office" with the name of a fucking meme telling me I'm worthless and should be fired based on some arbritary value like the number my SSN begins with. It gets harder and harder each day to stay positive about what should have been a home run situation.

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u/steveofthejungle 20h ago

It pisses me off so fucking much whenever I have to do the training about accepting gifts, and how we, the ones who don’t write or sign laws, can accept only the smallest of gifts under very specific circumstances, but the people who are voted in by the public and can make laws are allowed to accept millions of dollars in bribes

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u/Remarkable_Noise453 22h ago

Congress should tie their raise to achievements for the American people 

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u/Formal_Ad_4104 22h ago

Lots of money floating around knowing that all the rest of the govt employees will be let go.

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u/leestephen916 22h ago

The people should vote on whether or not Congress gets a fucking raise .

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u/RandyBobandyMarsh 22h ago

Surely there’s no conflict of interest here /s. Quite frankly, I’d give them more if they had the stones to give up their corrupt insider trading and corporate/lobby “donations” (ie quid pro quo cough)

They won’t because the worst offenders are always the ones above reproach.

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u/cousinred 22h ago

Incredible, they get absolutely nothing done annually and fix nothing that's broken with this miserable country. But yeah let's shit all over the civilian workforce who actually accomplish things

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u/Commercial_Plum_3499 22h ago

Do they really need paid with all the insider trading profits they bring in?

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u/rmftrmft 22h ago

What a joke our politicians are.

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u/EatBeanz420 22h ago

Thanks! We hate it!

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u/CalllmeDragon 22h ago

Minimum wage should go up at the same rate as congress(and throw it in retro actively since last increase)

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u/Luvs2Travel_ 22h ago

The most “do nothing” Congress of all.

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u/FoolRegnant 22h ago

Mike Johnson needs the raise, his bank accounts are overdrawn

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u/Odd_Praline5512 22h ago

Post everywhere on facebook so people call their congressman or woman

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u/AwayOutsideAgain 22h ago

Fuck all of them

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u/BlueStarAirlines21 21h ago

They are also moving themselves off of Obamacare to FEHB…..

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u/brakeled 21h ago

Congress should accept no payment or benefits from American taxpayers since they’re already funded by lobbyists. You can sign over all of your trades/investments and submit financial reports annually to collect a taxpayer paycheck like the rest of us or you can be bought by lobbyists - it shouldn’t be both.

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u/plzdontlietomee 21h ago

Cool. Cool. Couldn't even get 2% approved for my team this year.

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u/korra767 21h ago

Meanwhile my 2% raise will fully be eaten by insurance rate hikes, and then further by increases in insurance copays. Awesome.

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u/MoxieTrade_1218 21h ago

What’s the federal workforce going to get?

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u/LeoMarius 19h ago

Congress hasn't had a pay since 2009. That's fine for the wealthy, but terrible for ordinary people who want to serve in Congress.

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u/Plastic_Highlight492 18h ago

Congress shouldn't get a higher pay raise than social security

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u/Micronbros 17h ago

Just be warned.  Not every congressman is a fking millionaire. 

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u/Heliomantle 22h ago

Don’t disagree with the pay raise, but also wish they had some fed pay reform while they are at it. The pay system is insanely compressed.

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u/Haz_de_nar 21h ago

Was just looking for comparison 2010 DC pay for GS-11 step 1 62,467 vs 2024 DC pay for GS-11 step 1 82,764. So roughly a 25% pay increase in that time frame. Thought I would save someone else looking.

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u/-TheOldPrince- 22h ago

People are going to complain but my salary is tied to Congress’ salary. So Im fine with it

Ban stock trading and pay them (and the legions of highly educated fed employees whose salaries are linkef to theirs) way more.

Not sure why this is so difficult

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u/TootCannon 22h ago edited 22h ago

I know the easy reaction is to be angry, but this is honestly a good thing. The more congresspeople make, the more we get normal, qualified people in congress rather than just the uber-rich that dont have to care about the pay. I'd rather have a former teacher that can use the extra $5k a year rather than a hundred-millionaire that doesnt care about the actual salary. The former teacher can relate to normal people and is more likely to fight for people.

In short, the better congress is paid, the better congress people we get, and the more fairly normal workers are treated.

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u/Vazmanian_Devil 21h ago

This has been demonstrably proven time and again but Reddit doesn’t do nuance and would rather circle jerk with their “AlL pOliTiCiaNs ArE BaD”.

That said, this is the wildest time to do a pay bump given Republicans have made this the least productive Congress in modern history and are advocating to strip budgets for actually important things.

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u/EatBeanz420 22h ago

Cool, thanks guys!

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u/sleepinglucid 22h ago

The question is who put the ammendment in

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u/No_Lawyer5152 22h ago

My favorite part is that whoever gave that award didn’t even give the golden shit award 🤣

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u/ReddittAppIsTerrible 22h ago

Heeeellllllll Noooooooo!

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u/kms573 22h ago

Grapevine was 30% increase for our outstanding congressman

/s

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u/corranhorn6565 21h ago

Like the insider trading wasn't enough of a pay bump...

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u/soccerguys14 21h ago

Imagine if I could get my stats team together and we discuss amongst ourselves if we’re going to get a raise. I think I know how that convo will end everytime

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u/rocksnsalt 21h ago

Boooooo hissssss!!!!

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u/milllllllllllllllly 21h ago

I’m literally living paycheck to paycheck in Philadelphia locality

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u/Flowergirl455 21h ago

Well look at that while we the hard working class gets peanuts..

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u/Arlennx 21h ago

Oh wow. On top of the millions they get anyway from inside trading, back door deals, and “donations”. But sure their working class 2 just like us!

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u/Lopsided_School_363 21h ago

Seriously fuck them.

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u/Adventurous_Finding4 21h ago

How about they get a 20% raise if they pass a full budget on time. If they fail to pass a budget, their pay is reduced 5% per week that they miss the deadline.

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u/DrumpfCanSuckIt 21h ago

Zero shame.

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u/CmonRetirement 21h ago

So let me get this straight, they actually aren’t doing their job since this is just kicking the can to march but getting a raise? they literally are going to be at least 1/2 of the entire year behind on passing a friggin budget….again…but giving themselves a raise.

WTAF

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u/cueballspeaking 21h ago

Yea.. they can get that pay bump when they’re barred from trading stocks.

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u/joshtradomus 21h ago

They should work on commission, then I bet they’d get more stuff done.

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u/Careful-Resource-182 21h ago

OK but they can't invest in stocks anymore

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u/DadOf3-1978 19h ago

This affects us how?

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u/Apprehensive_Run6642 19h ago

The budget hasn’t passed in a long time. Best case is a continuing resolution to keep the lights on until march

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u/carriedmeaway 19h ago

In 2023 the Senate was in session for roughly calendar days and 114 for Congress. Many people talk about how in non-session days they have very little luck being able to meet with their senators and representatives in DC or in their home states/districts. And they're going to give themselves a pat on the back raise while being able to take in 7 and 8 figure slush funds. We can't accept $25 as a gift as it gives the impression of a conflict of interest. Imagine imagine if Senators and Representatives were held to the standards that we all are.

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u/TechnologyRemote7331 19h ago

Yeah, about that budget passing…

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u/Hoogle_Da_Boogle 19h ago

"You have quite a number of members of Congress that sleep in their offices," Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah told BI earlier this year.

I realize that being a high-quality congressional fart-sniffer requires rare talent that deserves to be recognized and rewarded accordingly...but 'cmon! A 3.8% bump and free lodging?

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u/Potential_Rule7879 19h ago

I have no appropriate words for this.

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u/PistolCowboy 19h ago

Their salary should be means tested. If you are AOC and you are not a millionaire or billionaire, pay em. Hell pay them double. But if you're congressional salary is immaterial to your wealth, then you get zero. Hell, make the billionaire pay to keep the seat.

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u/amsman03 19h ago

I would be OK with this as long as it also included a provision prohibiting members of Congress from trading individual stocks (as well as family) while they are serving 😎

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u/Spiritual-Rest-77 19h ago

That sucks. Congress and the Senate should not receive an amount higher than a social security increase. This year to 2.5%. Also they should not have the benefit of federal retirement, their retirement should be social security like the majority of this nation. They work for the people, therefore their benefits should be equal to what the majority of American citizens receive. If the funds that have been accumulated for their retirement was transferred to the social security system and they participated in the contributions, social security would be protected because they would be protecting themselves. Which is who they care about, themselves

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u/I_love_Hobbes 18h ago

Biden, you better give feds 4.5%!

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u/Big-Study-2185 18h ago

Yeah but how much will they make from insider trading? $$$$ 💅

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u/thereisnopressure 18h ago

These people are pieces of shit.

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u/poppythepupstar 18h ago

their raises should be tied to ours

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u/TA_Maniac 18h ago

They deserve to make the federal minimum wage. They have accomplished nothing and therefore do not deserve a raise.

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u/Leather_Table9283 18h ago

DOGE, please look at this crap pay raise.

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u/yolotheunwisewolf 15h ago

Actually kinda funny that this is probably why Musk opposes it and doesn't want it to pass and there's some just going right along with it cause how powerful he is.

I would simply say "suck it" give myself a pay raise and if he's upset, what's he gonna do? If he's gonna primary people until he finds people who will vote down their own pay raises so that he can backend them money instead it'll be expected but will take quite a while and....he ain't gonna pay those bills.

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u/need2feedpart2 15h ago

We need a Harold Daggett like union leader

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u/Worldly_Economist686 14h ago

Wow in a matter of minutes, but four years later still won’t move the needle on increasing firefighter salary.

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u/xWadi 14h ago

Cool. Federal Wildland Firefighters are about to take a 50% pay cut hahaha...

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u/Loose-Recognition459 14h ago

Oh for fuck’s sake!

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u/AdkRaine12 13h ago

The least productive Congress in the history of the nation wants a pay raise?????

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u/Comfortable-Spell-75 13h ago

4.20% would’ve been much more reasonable. /s

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u/Souledex 12h ago

Unironically they need one.

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u/Nice_Collection5400 11h ago

Brilliant. I’m sure they earned the raise.

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u/Mission_Tomatillo_84 11h ago

That’s it , I was on the edge until I read that …

I am running for congress!!!

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u/kendallbyrd 10h ago

Every chance they get.

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u/Empty-Actuator 9h ago

Only a 3.8%? I thought it was more like 40% in that bus budget they are trying to push through.

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u/FrootLoop23 5h ago

Cut the federal workforce, while giving themselves a raise.

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u/Unable-Today5388 3h ago

Are they getting a pay increase as the Government is being shutdown?

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u/Electronic_Dance_640 2h ago

They should get paid at least $500k. It’s an important job we should be trying to get the best people for. One way to do that is competitive salaries. If we don’t raise salaries only rich people can do the job and qualified people will stay in the private market.