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Washington Post
May 3, 2007
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Federal Diary
By Stephen Barr
A House Armed Services subcommittee yesterday proposed providing military personnel with a 3.5 percent pay raise next year.
The raise would be more than the average private-sector raise, as measured by the Labor Department's employment cost index, and further reduce a gap between military and private-sector salaries, said Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.), chairman of the House Armed Services military personnel subcommittee.
In his fiscal 2008 budget, the president recommended a 3 percent raise for the military and civil service.
The president of the National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen M. Kelley, said civil service employees "warrant a similar raise" and that the union will seek bipartisan support in Congress for a 3.5 percent raise for civilian and military personnel.
May 3, 2007
Pg. D4
Federal Diary
By Stephen Barr
A House Armed Services subcommittee yesterday proposed providing military personnel with a 3.5 percent pay raise next year.
The raise would be more than the average private-sector raise, as measured by the Labor Department's employment cost index, and further reduce a gap between military and private-sector salaries, said Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.), chairman of the House Armed Services military personnel subcommittee.
In his fiscal 2008 budget, the president recommended a 3 percent raise for the military and civil service.
The president of the National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen M. Kelley, said civil service employees "warrant a similar raise" and that the union will seek bipartisan support in Congress for a 3.5 percent raise for civilian and military personnel.