2010 Locality

[RABIRZA69]

Atlanta 18.55% 19.29% 0.74%
Boston 23.98% 24.80% 0.82%
Buffalo 16.39% 16.98% 0.59%
Chicago 24.47% 25.10% 0.63%
Cincinnati 18.28% 18.55% 0.27%
Cleveland 18.16% 18.68% 0.52%
Columbus 16.62% 17.16% 0.54%
Dallas 19.95% 20.67% 0.72%
Dayton 15.90% 16.24% 0.34%
Denver 22.03% 22.52% 0.49%
Detroit 23.56% 24.09% 0.53%
Hartford 25.08% 25.82% 0.74%
Houston 28.28% 28.71% 0.43%
Huntsville 15.46% 16.02% 0.56%
Indianapolis 14.23% 14.68% 0.45%
Los Angeles 26.51% 27.16% 0.65%
Miami 20.21% 20.79% 0.58%
Milwaukee 17.65% 18.10% 0.45%
Minneapolis 20.36% 20.96% 0.60%
New York 27.96% 28.72% 0.76%
Philadelphia 21.25% 21.79% 0.54%
Phoenix 16.08% 16.76% 0.68%
Pittsburgh 15.86% 16.37% 0.51%
Portland 19.71% 20.35% 0.64%
Raleigh 17.38% 17.64% 0.26%
Richmond 16.10% 16.47% 0.37%
Sacramento 21.53% 22.20% 0.67%
San Diego 23.44% 24.19% 0.75%
San Francisco 34.35% 35.15% 0.80%
Seattle 21.06% 21.81% 0.75%
Washington 23.10% 24.22% 1.12%
Rest of U.S. 13.86% 14.16% 0.30%

 

[szaryk]

I'm curious as to your source. According to other reports, the White House has frozen locality pay for 2010 at 2009 rates:

http://www.federaldaily.com/federaldaily/archive/2009/12/FD120209.htm

http://www.faama.org/news_archive

 

[Rosstafari]

Think it came from here: http://www.govexec.com/pdfs/122409m1a.pdf

 

[bippoptl]

I'm curious as to your source. According to other reports, the White House has frozen locality pay for 2010 at 2009 rates:

http://www.federaldaily.com/federaldaily/archive/2009/12/FD120209.htm

http://www.faama.org/news_archive

That's not true, this is the email I got from NATCA....

Hello All,

OPM published the locality rates for 2010. For New York the locality rate will be 28.72%, which is an increase of 0.76%. This means New York now has the second highest locality rate in the country . San Francisco has the highest at 35.15%.


For controllers and TMU this means January's raise will be 3.76% of your basic pay.Those eligible to retire will also receive an additional 1% of their base pay.


For other bargaining units and the rest of the government the general raise has not been decided yet.

Thanks

John
NATCA ZNY VP

 

[RABIRZA69]

Hey BIP, you know a kid at ZNY initials are OW, he used to work at JBU?

 

[bippoptl]

Hey BIP, you know a kid at ZNY initials are OW, he used to work at JBU?

I know a lot of people who work there but almost none by their initials. PM his/her name. Are they training still or cpc?

 

[szaryk]

I stand corrected -- and will certainly not argue a pay raise!

Merry Christmas.

Kyle
ZBW

 

[Jarvis]

Funny how Washington gets the highest percent 1.12%

 

[planetalkerman]

Actually Alaska and Hawaii got the highest increase...they both jumped somewhere around 4.00% each.

 

[jcpilot]

Actually Alaska and Hawaii got the highest increase...they both jumped somewhere around 4.00% each.

It's actually working a bit differently than that. For 2010 and 2011, we're phasing in the change from COLA to locality. For 2010, our COLA was frozen at its current rate of 23%, and we're getting 1/3rd of the 'rest of U.S.' locality pay. In 2011, we'll still get the 23% COLA, but we'll then get 2/3rds of the yet-to-be-determined Alaska locality pay. In 2012, we dump COLA and get the full Alaska locality.

However, for 2010 and 2011, we lose 65 cents of COLA for every dollar we get in locality. So if I get $120 in locality, I'll lose $78 in COLA.

It's kinda messed up, but it's supposed to help people transition from making a tax-free COLA to the taxed locality pay.