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October 30, 2025

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Promotion Charts

These charts answer the question: Upon promotion, what pay step in the promoted grade will I get? 

October 30, 2025

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For employees covered by the National Postal Professional Nurses Agreement:

The NPPN interest-arbitration award, issued April 28, 2009, granted five raises in the contract, which concludes on Aug. 10, 2012. Two raises were implemented retroactively, with a 3.3 percent increase effective Aug. 18,...

October 30, 2025

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For Social Security Recipients:

The 2015 Social Security COLA is based on the third quarter (July, August, September) average CPI-W index in 2014 over the 2013 third quarter average.  After the fourth quarter of 2013, the first quarter of the 2015 COLA...

October 30, 2025

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For CSRS Retirees:

The 2015 CSRS retiree COLA is based on the third quarter (July, August, September) average CPI-W index in 2014 over the 2013 third quarter average. After the fourth quarter of 2013, the first quarter of the 2015 COLA adj...

October 30, 2025

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Making a List and Checking It Twice

Retirees were smart. We started planning for the 2014 elections right after the 2012 presidential election. We began by paying close attention to the public statements of elected officials about issues that impact our wa...

October 30, 2025

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For Employees Covered by the Information Technology/Accounting Services Agreement:

There will not be any additional COLA under the 2007-2011 IT/AS Agreement . Future increases are dependent on the outcome of current negotiations for a successor contract to the 2007-2011 IT/AS Agreement. Under the 2007-...

October 30, 2025

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For FECA Employees:

The percentage increase in the December CPI-W index from year to year determines the FECA COLA increase. The 2014 FECA COLA will be 1.5% effective  March 2014.

October 30, 2025

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For Employees Covered by the National Agreement:

October 30, 2025

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PSE Pay, Sunday Premium

For many years part-time flexibles ( PTFS ) have questioned why their overtime rates of pay were calculated differently than full-time employees. Now we have Postal Support Employees (PSEs), and their overtime rates are...