{"id":27411,"date":"2026-04-09T17:29:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=27411"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:29:58","slug":"white-house-budget-calls-for-2027-federal-pay-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=27411","title":{"rendered":"White House Budget Calls for 2027 Federal Pay Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myfederalretirement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pay-free-dp_705255610_L.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myfederalretirement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pay-free-dp_705255610_L.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.myfederalretirement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pay-free-dp_705255610_L-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myfederalretirement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pay-free-dp_705255610_L-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.myfederalretirement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pay-free-dp_705255610_L-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.myfederalretirement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pay-free-dp_705255610_L-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"><\/p>\n<p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/budget_fy2027.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House\u2019s 2027 budget proposal<\/a> released Friday includes a 5%-7% pay raise based on rank for military service members, the proposal is silent on a 2027 federal pay raise for civilian employees.<\/p>\n<p>An Office of Management and Budget spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/pay-benefits\/2026\/04\/trumps-budget-mum-civilian-pay-raise-2027\/412613\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> <em>Government Executive<\/em> that under Trump\u2019s budget, civilian workers would receive no pay increase next January.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zIiKuvgkai\">\n<p>2027 CSRS \/ FERS COLA Watch for Federal Retirees<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201c2027 CSRS \/ FERS COLA Watch for Federal Retirees\u201d \u2014 www.myfederalretirement.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myfederalretirement.com\/fers-csrs-cola-watch\/embed\/#?secret=RJc2xnAJNK#?secret=zIiKuvgkai\" data-secret=\"zIiKuvgkai\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most federal employees received a 1% across-the-board pay raise for 2026 \u2014 the smallest pay increase they have received since 2021. Federal law enforcement personnel received a 3.8% increase in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers have proposed a larger federal pay raise in 2027 of 4.1% in the the FAIR Act. Congressman James Walkinshaw (D-VA), who sponsored the FAIR Act, made the following statement Friday regarding the 2027 federal employee pay freeze:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFor 15 months, the Trump administration has attacked federal employees through reckless DOGE policies, used them as political leverage through two shutdowns, and offered a meager 1% raise in the current fiscal year. This budget continues that pattern with an insulting pay freeze, chainsaw slashes to key federal agencies, and no meaningful investment to retain the workforce that continues to serve the American people despite the abuse from the Administration and Republican Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The nonpartisan public servants who continue showing up to work, even after this Administration has repeatedly shoved them to the side, choose public service over bigger private sector paychecks. As Co-Chair and Founder of the Federal Workforce Caucus, I will keep fighting to deliver exactly that through the FAIR Act, which provides a 4.1% raise grounded in real economic data and the statutory FEPCA formula.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The annual precedent is that the president releases an initial proposal for the next year\u2019s federal employee pay raise\u00a0 \u2014 which could be zero.\u00a0 The White House must submit an alternative pay plan to Congress by August or \u2014unless Congress intervenes \u2014\u00a0 an automatic increases will be enacted in locality pay due to the 1990 Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cp-load-after-post\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfederalretirement.com\/2027-federal-pay-raise-or-freeze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the White House\u2019s 2027 budget proposal released Friday includes a 5%-7% pay raise based on rank for military service members, the proposal is silent on a 2027 federal pay raise for civilian employees. An Office of Management and Budget spokesperson told Government Executive that under Trump\u2019s budget, civilian workers would receive no pay increase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[348],"tags":[459,279,478,3648,42,41,2470],"class_list":{"0":"post-27411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-retirement","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-calls","10":"tag-federal","11":"tag-freeze","12":"tag-house","13":"tag-pay","14":"tag-white"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}