{ "id": "RL32355", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "RL32355", "active": false, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com, University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 100279, "date": "2005-02-07", "retrieved": "2016-04-07T19:54:11.662029", "title": "Federal White-Collar Pay: FY2005 Salary Adjustments", "summary": "Federal white-collar employees are to receive an annual pay adjustment and a locality-based\ncomparability payment, effective in January of each year, under Section 529 of P.L. 101-509 , the\nFederal Employees Pay Comparability Act (FEPCA) of 1990. The law has never been implemented\nas originally enacted; annual and locality payments have been reduced. In January 2005, they\nreceived a 2.5% annual pay adjustment and a 1.0% locality-based comparability payment under\nExecutive Order 13368, issued by President George W. Bush on December 30, 2004. Although the\nfederal pay adjustments are sometimes referred to as cost-of-living adjustments, neither the annual\nadjustment nor the locality payment is based on measures of the cost of living.\n The annual pay adjustment is based on the Employment Cost Index (ECI), which measures\nchange in private-sector wages and salaries. The index showed that the annual across-the-board\nincrease would be 2.5% in January 2005. The size of the locality payment is determined by the\nPresident, and is based on a comparison of non-federal and General Schedule (GS) salaries in 32 pay\nareas nationwide. By law, the disparity between non-federal and federal salaries was to be gradually\nreduced to 5% over the years 1994 through 2002; FEPCA requires that amounts payable may not be\nless than the full amount necessary to reduce the pay disparity to 5% in January 2005. The Federal\nSalary Council and the Pay Agent recommended that, to carry out FEPCA, the 2005 locality\npayments range from 18.14% in the \"Rest of the United States\" (RUS) pay area to 47.96% in the San\nJose-San Francisco pay area. The payment recommended for the Washington, DC, pay area was\n29.66%. Because the new locality rate replaces the existing locality rate, the change in locality rates\nis derived by comparing 2004 locality payments with those recommended for 2005. This\ncomparison results in recommended net increases for 2005, if the ECI and locality-based\ncomparability payments were granted as required by law, of 9.19% in the RUS pay area to 22.10%\nin the San Jose-San Francisco pay area, and 15.94% in the Washington, DC, pay area. The\nnationwide average net pay increase, if the ECI and locality-based comparability payments were\ngranted as required by law, would have been 13.06% in 2005. President Bush's FY2005 budget\nproposed a 1.5% federal civilian pay adjustment. He proposed a 3.5% pay adjustment for the\nuniformed military, and a number of Members of Congress advocated the same pay adjustment for\nfederal civilians. The Departments of Transportation and Treasury and Independent Agencies\nappropriations bill, 2005 -- H.R. 5025 , as passed by the House of Representatives, and\n S. 2806 , as reported in the Senate -- provides a 3.5% pay adjustment for federal civilian\nemployees, including those in the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. This\nappropriations bill was incorporated as Division H of the Consolidated Appropriations Act for\nFY2005 ( H.R. 4818 ) which was signed by the President on December 8, 2004, and\nbecame P.L. 108-447 .\n The President's budget for FY2006 proposes pay adjustments of 2.3% for federal civilian\nemployees and 3.1% for the uniformed military. 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