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9,000 AR employees affected by federal pay freeze plan

About 9,000 Arkansas employees may not get pay raises for the next two years with president Obama announcing Monday a plan to freeze the salaries for all federal employees.

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Kenrcpilot - 11/30/2010 10:55 PM
0 Votes
How about the congress and senate giving up their pay raises? they oughta be paying money back.

golfdude - 11/30/2010 7:37 PM
1 Vote
Obama knows that Jan. 20th 2013 will be the end of an ERROR and he will be out of office.

jreppoh - 11/30/2010 3:54 AM
3 Votes
Good because it is not fair for such highly paid workers to get cost of living raises when they say that a disabled person on medcare can't have one! I wish I had their perks.

namvet6869 - 11/29/2010 10:23 PM
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lisacjj Unless they have changed things in the last five years the GS pay scale also has a COLA (cost of living adjustment) for high cost areas, Hawaii drew over 10000 a year in COLA so it should have the same affect on all Federal Employees.

lisacjj - 11/29/2010 9:40 PM
2 Votes
As a federal employee i will accept the 2 year pay raise, as long as big business do not keep their tax break. Some of you judge what federal employees make here in Arkansas. However, federal employees make about the same amount in every state. (to include higher earning states like california, colorado, new york and new jersey) This will also effect the lower earning federal employees. Everyone is not making 60,000 a year. there are many only making $8 an hour

Jim001 - 11/29/2010 6:05 PM
3 Votes
I'm sorry for those folks, but non Federal employees go through pay freezes too. I was in the middle of one during the so called fuel shortage. Nothing is ever said about folks that are non Federal employees. Do Federal employees still get cost of living raises ? I don't !

newuser01 - 11/29/2010 5:03 PM
6 Votes
Aww, I feel so sorry for them. Didn't bother them that the military retirees haven't gotten a raise in the past 2 years though. Yet some politicians got as much as a 16% raise both years.

pauly - 11/29/2010 4:32 PM
3 Votes
well they will still be ahead of the private sector because they make twice what the privet sector makes for the same job so I think they will be alright I get a 3% raise a year so it will take me 17 years to catch up to them were they are at know THIS COUNTRY IS DOMMED
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