President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order to provide federal civilian personnel an average salary increase of 4.6 percent in January, Government Executive reported.
The figure includes an average 0.5 percent rise in locality pay and an across-the-board increase of 4.1 percent to basic pay.
The raise will take effect during the first pay period in January and is the largest salary increase for federal employees since 2002. In 2022, federal personnel received an average 2.7 percent pay raise.
According to the EO, the head of the Office of Personnel Management should initiate actions to implement the salary adjustments and publish a notice in the Federal Register regarding the move.