The Nation : U.S. Workers Get 3% Raise

President Reagan signed a 3% New Year’s Day pay increase for most federal workers and military personnel. The raise contained in the executive order signed by Reagan, vacationing at the Rancho Mirage home of Publisher Walter H. Annenberg, was provided by a resolution adopted in the closing days of the last session of Congress. Under the new schedule, annual salaries will range from $9,619 for the lowest-paid workers to $111,700 for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. Cabinet officers will earn $88,800, and other top presidential appointees will be paid from $70,800 to $77,400 a year.