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Bonuses for federal employees down by $43M last year

Federal workers received about $439 million in bonuses last year, down from $482 million in 2010, the Asbury Park Press reports.

The amount “represents just 0.4 percent of the $105 billion in salaries for most of the government’s civilian employees,” notes the Park Press.

According to the report, Moira Mack, a spokesperson for the Office of Management and Budget, said the administration has “eliminated bonuses for all political appointees, directed agencies to adopt more rigorous personnel management processes and set a cap to reduce spending on awards for career staff, saving taxpayers an estimated $200 million this year alone.” 


 

Reader comments

Mon, May 21, 2012 Fed-Up

Offer the VSIP/VERA to the all Feds... I could get my early out and a cash bonus... and the next day, start back doing the same job as a contractor - with NO pay freeze, NO award cap and making more money!!

Fri, May 18, 2012

I think the frustration on bonus is, that the SES'ers and Senior staff, and Appointees get them, but the GS schedule folks are doing the bulk of the work, at less than $100K a year, get nothing, basically. My senior staff supervisor constantly asks for ideas from us, and when he gets them, they are packaged up, and presented as our unit's ideas, and if the leadership likes them, they are implemented, but we get nothing but a good rating, and a day off. But from what I have been told, my boss and the appointee above him get those big bonus' if the ideas we put together work. This tells you that Average Joe's in government, if motivated, are NOT rewarded. I know of folks who still try hard to impress, only to have their supervisor prevent them from gaining any opportunities or promotions because they are "hard to lose" as they need them to keep generating good work, so are punished for it. In DC, everyone stands on top of someone else to get what is actually deserved by ALL who contribute, not just the "chosen ones".

Thu, May 17, 2012

So when does it stop? Why does Congress keep hammering Federal employees? If anyone is interested, they are taxpayers too to the tune of 20 or 30 billion dollars a year and around 10 billion a year to Socail Security & medicare not to mention contributing around 10 billion dollars a year toward their retirement. Congress needs to stop the bickering and lead our country and make the hard choices. If anyone paid attention, big corporations did the same thing cut emplyee wages, benefits and retirement and look where we are now.

Thu, May 17, 2012

Instead of putting federal employee's pay (GS 5,6,7,8,9) on freeze it should be NO MORE BONUS for the next 3 years!!! Sure is funny how nobody mentions this!!! Oh yeah but it is down by $43M! Really! Come live in my world!

Thu, May 17, 2012

I just read an article on IT salaries in the private sector. Pay is up about 2.2% over last year, and bonuses averaged just under 9% of base pay. My private sector counterparts now average $132,000 a year while I'm still frozen at $100,000. Yet the politicians and news media keep going on about how the government overpays its workers. I'm sure this 0.4% of salaries paid out in bonuses will be deemed unconscionable by some pontificating blowhard in Congress, and there will be demands once again for the elimination of all bonuses. So no bonuses, no pay increases, no training, increased pension payments that are not going to fund the pensions… Yep, this is certainly the way for the government to attract the best and brightest like they keep saying they want to do.

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