COLA for Employees Covered by the IT/AS Agreement

BLS published the November 2025 Consumer Price Index (CPI) under a revised schedule on Thursday, December 18, 2025, at 8:30 A.M. Eastern Time. The CPI release for October 2025 was cancelled due to a lapse in appropriations, preventing the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) from collecting October 2025 reference period survey data.

Future COLAs will depend on the terms of the successor IT/AS Collective Bargaining Agreement, which is currently being negotiated. In November, the CPI-W Unadjusted Index (1967=100) decreased from September to 945.479.

Under the 2022-2025 IT/AS Agreement, employees accrued the following adjustments totaling $4,638.00:

 

# Amount Effective Date Pay Period Pay Date
1 $1,331.00 November 05, 2022 24-2022 November 25, 2022
2    $645.00 May 06, 2023 11-2023 May 26, 2023
3    $978.00 November 04, 2023 24-2023 November 24, 2023
4    $644.00 May 04, 2024 11-2024 May 24, 2024
5    $396.00 November 02, 2024 24-2024 November 22, 2024
6    $644.00 May 03, 2025 11-2025 May 23, 2025

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