FORT CAVAZOS, Texas — Federal wage grade employees at Fort Cavazos, and all federal agencies located in the Waco wage area, will officially see a 4.75 percent increase in their paychecks in the ...

The federal minimum wage hasn't been increased since 2009. Congress needs to act to raise it, and the next president should commit to signing a wage hike.

OPM moves to standardize General Schedule, blue collar locality pay areas For years, federal employee unions have bemoaned that the pay systems’ differing maps of high-cost regions created pay ...

ROYAL OAK, Michigan (Reuters) -Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said on Monday the U.S. must raise its federal minimum wage, and she labeled the current mininum ...

Fifteen years ago this Wednesday, the federal minimum wage went up from $6.55 per hour to $7.25. It hasn't budged since.

Washington state’s minimum wage will increase to $15.74 an hour in January, up $1.25 from the current rate. Announcing the increase Friday, state labor officials said the 8.66% increase reflects ...

A handful of states already have minimum wages at or above $15 an hour. Others have rates far below that benchmark.

A new proposed rule from OPM will standardize locality pay maps for the General Schedule and the Federal Wage System. Sarah Silbiger / The Washington Post / Getty Images ...

A handful of states already have minimum wages at or above $15 an hour.

It’s hard to imagine, even in less expensive regions, how an adult can pay for housing, food, healthcare and transportation on a full-time minimum wage salary of $15,000 a year.

In Seattle and some surrounding cities, the minimum wage is almost $20 an hour. Still, 20 states, bowing to politics and business lobbying, have kept the federal $7.25 an hour as their pay floor.