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Position classification in the civil service of the United States federal government
The 2026 federal civilian pay picture was shaped by an Alternative Pay Plan announced August 28, 2025: most General Schedule (GS) civilian employees received a 1.0% across‑the‑board base pay increase ...
The recognize a small number of career senior federal executives and senior professionals for “sustained extraordinary accomplishment,” with two award tiers (Distinguished and Meritorious) tied to cas...
The most direct, verifiable public records that establish employee status are official employment and personnel records held by the VA (including eOPF for former employees), records the VA proactively...
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) sits within a Department of Veterans Affairs budget that exceeds $400 billion in FY2025 and assumes a 2% civilian pay increase, while VHA has used large incent...
The Hatch Act restricts most federal employees from engaging in partisan political activities while on duty, in federal workplaces, or using official authority, and places extra limits on “further res...
A typical special agent starts at a GS hiring grade that reflects education and experience—commonly GS-5, GS-7 or GS-9—and then moves up a career ladder through GS-11, GS-12 and into journeyman or sup...
An “excepted” federal employee can mean two related things: (A) a worker appointed to the excepted service — jobs that are not in the competitive service or Senior Executive Service and whose hiring r...