According to new instructions from the Office of Personnel Management, federal agencies are required to raise the federal minimum wage for government employees to $15 an hour by 2020.
According to the Office of Personnel Management, the directive will have an impact on over 70,000 federal employees, the majority of whom work for the Departments of Defense, Agriculture, and Veteran Affairs.
Support for blue-collar workers has been a top objective of President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, with the former vice president claiming that strong unions and greater salaries can help resuscitate America’s middle class while also bridging economic and racial imbalances.
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Earlier this year, President Joe Biden signed an executive order increasing the wages of federal contract workers to $15 an hour.
As the Office of Personnel Management’s Kiran Ahuja stated in the statement, “raising pay rates across the federal government to at least $15 per hour demonstrates our gratitude for the federal workers and our ideals as a country.”
According to the statement, the Office of Personnel Management has ordered agencies to implement the higher wage by January 30, with the exception of the United States Postal Service and the Postal Regulatory Commission.
