Federal government jobs are not safe. For the last 15 years they have been turning the jobs over to contractors. Yeah, still jobs, but very low paying and minimal benes like health insurance.
However, many government employees were recently placed on a merit promotion system. The amount of raise will depend on your evaluation and how much money there is in the pay pool. Thus, the pay pool could have no money. This was Donald Rumsfeld’s brilliant idea. On a positive note, GW has declined to pass it for Homeland Security employees because of the operating expense to get it off the ground.
The way I see it, there won’t be any raises, cost of living expenses is no longer, and as the dollar buys less, then what was a decent salary, is now very stretched. So, govt employees may maintain jobs, but they won’t be anything spectacular.
