Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
For calendar year 2026 the bill increases basic pay for statutory federal pay systems by 3.3 percent, raises prevailing rate employees’ basic pay by 3.3 percent (waiving the usual wage survey requirement), and increases locality pay adjustments by 1 percent.
Progressives emphasize worker pay and fairness; conservatives emphasize fiscal cost.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly scoped substantive statutory change that is concise and well-targeted: it specifies percentage increases, ties them to exact provisions of title 5, and sets clear temporal application for 2026.
For calendar year 2026 the bill increases basic pay for statutory federal pay systems by 3.3 percent, raises prevailing rate employees’ basic pay by 3.3 percent (waiving the usual wage survey requirement), and increases locality pay adjustments by 1 percent.
Narrow, routine federal pay adjustment with predictable support; fiscal optics and waiver of wage survey are modest risks.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly scoped substantive statutory change that is concise and well-targeted: it specifies percentage increases, ties them to exact provisions of title 5, and sets clear temporal application for 2026.
Progressives emphasize worker pay and fairness; conservatives emphasize fiscal cost.
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressives emphasize worker pay and fairness; conservatives emphasize fiscal cost.
Overall supportive: views the bill as a needed, across-the-board pay increase for federal workers that helps recruitment, retention, and worker fairness.
May want larger increases tied to inflation, but sees this as a positive step.
Cautiously supportive: accepts a modest, predictable pay adjustment that preserves federal workforce stability while preferring clarity on budget offsets and cost estimates.
Sees waiver of wage surveys as pragmatic but wants transparency.
Skeptical or opposed: views the bill as an unnecessary expansion of federal payroll costs and a precedent for additional raises without clear offsets or performance links.
Concerned about fiscal discipline and federal overreach.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Narrow, routine federal pay adjustment with predictable support; fiscal optics and waiver of wage survey are modest risks.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize worker pay and fairness; conservatives emphasize fiscal cost.
Narrow, routine federal pay adjustment with predictable support; fiscal optics and waiver of wage survey are modest risks.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly scoped substantive statutory change that is concise and well-targeted: it specifies percentage increases, ties them to exact provisions of title 5, and…
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