Obama nudges locality pay for federal workers

Federal workers aren’t getting much of a pay increase next year, but those in Alaska will get a small extra bump.
President Obama today announced changes to the locality pay for civilian employees, intended to account for differences in living costs.
Alaska’s locality pay will increase 0.47 of a percentage point, to just over 25 percent, in 2016. That comes in addition to the increase in federal base pay, which for the third year in a row will be 1 percent.
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