Trump moves to cap pay raise for civilian government workers at 1 percent

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28. Here in Philly, that has one of the higher concentrations of federal employees on the east coast

we did this routinely in my agency and others in this area. And the Co-Op program here was NOT "shut down" and was implemented here as needed/authorized depending on the workload, any vacancies, and any existing agreements with local colleges.

"Elsewhere" - particularly here in the Midatlantic and Northeast, have more federal employees than the south so you cannot make a blanket assertion based on that one region.

And as a note - the WG scale is done separately from the GS scale and is usually not part of what gets reported in the media about the "COLA pay increases" that get talked about with the annual budget. In fact, the WG scale is not always adjusted with the GS scale.

And you just proved my point about "workers in their 40s-50s" - which in their case as Wage Grade (meaning no college), they may have started with the government at age 17 or 18 and would have worked 25 - 40 years or more before getting that type of pay. They didn't start with that.

Yes it is a RW talking point to compare the pay of government workers who have been in their same positions for decades, with those who may be just starting out or who have only been working a few years and who are in no way getting that kind of salary. I know when I started as a GS-5 step 1 back during Raygun's 2nd term, my starting salary was ~$14,000 while comparable private industry was in the $30,000 - $50,000 range - but I ended up coming out of college during the Raygun recession so they weren't hiring.

And it's also insulting to attach a negative attribute to people who don't want to change jobs every 3 years chasing higher salaries and nowadays, private industry doesn't want to train on the job, which is why they keep trying to increase the H1B (and other) Visas. It's an insult to federal employees who keep this fucking country running day in and day out regardless of who is President.

I know I worked under 6 Presidents and did my job for the public. We have sadly been watching what RWers do to public servants over the past couple months, with the petty insults and vitriol.