Article Title: Budget projects ‘largest relative pay cut’ for feds
Snippet of Article: "...The 2017 budget, which was released on Feb. 9, estimates that any raise less than 2.1 percent would be the eighth-consecutive annual increase that came in below the Employment Cost Index, which measures the cost of labor.
The result is a 9 percent gap between federal and private-sector pay..."
Source: www.federaltimes.com
