3.6% Pay Hike OKd for Federal Workers

President Clinton has approved an average 3.6% pay raise for federal workers next year and proposed a 4.4% hike the following year that if implemented would represent the largest wage increase for the nation’s 1.8 million civil servants in nearly two decades, administration officials said. For the typical white-collar federal worker nationally, who earns $44,814, the 3.6% increase will amount to an extra $1,613 in 1999. The 3.6% pay hike takes effect Jan. 1, while the 4.4% increase would begin Jan. 1, 2000. The 3.6% rise is both affordable and fair, a senior administration official said.