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• Lawmakers call on Biden to grant feds a 4.5% raise in 2025, restoring pay parity - December 11, 2024

• By Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  Agroup of 26 Democratic lawmakers across both the House and Senate on Wednesday urged President Biden to increase the pay raise planned for civilian federal workers next month to 4.5%, restoring military-civilian pay parity.
  
  Biden turned heads among federal employee groups and Democrats last spring when he proposed just a 2.0% average pay raise for civilian federal workers, compared to the 4.5% planned for military service members. Biden formalized his alternative pay plan in August, stipulating that 1.7% would be devoted to across-the-board increases to basic pay and setting aside 0.3% to average locality pay increases.
  
  In a letter to the president Wednesday, more than two dozen lawmakers, led by Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, D-Va., and Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., urged Biden to revise his pay plan to grant civilian federal workers the same 4.5% average increase that military service members will receive beginning next month.

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