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Federal and Trust pay raise takes effect January 14

President Biden has authorized a 5.2% pay raise for Federal employees that includes an across-the-board 4.7% raise and an average 0.5% increase in locality pay. Additionally, Secretary Bunch approved the same increase for all Trust employees. Increases for Federal and Trust employees will be effective January 14, 2024, and will be reflected in employees’ February 8 paycheck.

Federal Employees (General Schedule (GS)) and Trust Employees

The Office of Personnel Management has issued the 2024 pay tables.

Note that Trust pay table for Trust employees on the IS pay plan will reflect the GS pay schedule.

Federal Non-Senior Wage System Employees (Pay Plans WG, WL, WS)

Effective Date: To be determined for each locality by the Office of Personnel Management.

New Federal pay tables have not yet been issued for the wage schedules in the various localities. Once the new wage tables are published by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), additional information will be provided on the new rates and the appropriate effective dates. Note that pay will be processed retroactively to the effective date.

Federal Wage System (FWS) and Trust Non-Senior Pay Adjustments: Wage System Employees (Pay Plans HG, HL, HS)

Effective Date: To be determined for each locality by the Office of Personnel Management.

Updated Federal pay tables have not yet been issued for the wage schedules in the various localities. Once the new wage tables are published, additional information will be provided on the new rates and the appropriate effective dates.

Note that the pay tables for Trust HG, HS and HL pay tables are the same as the FWS pay tables and will be updated according to the tables published by the Office of Personnel Management.

FWS Pay tables

Senior Level (SL) Employees

Decisions on senior level compensation will be made by the Regents and the Secretary at the end of January and will be retroactive to 1/14/2024.

Smithsonian Enterprises (SE) Employees

NOTE: This information does not apply to Smithsonian Enterprises employees. Information on pay increases for SE employees will come directly from SE Human Resources.

General Information

Note that for some employees, Smithsonian’s payroll provider, the National Finance Center (NFC) may be unable to process the pay adjustment automatically. This situation generally occurs when intervening Personnel Actions have been processed. The Office of Human Resources (OHR) will monitor pay adjustments that are not automatically processed and OHR will notify the affected units so that affected employees are notified. In most cases, the issues are resolved within two pay periods and employees will receive any missed retroactive pay adjustment amounts retroactive to January 14, 2024.

Questions

Questions regarding non-senior pay adjustments may be addressed to your Organization’s HR Operations Specialist or Diane Moye-Tillman: MoyeTillmanD@si.edu.

Questions regarding Senior Level pay adjustments should be directed to Suleyka Lozins @ LozinsS@si.edu.