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I thought basically Federal jobs were the ones who had a specific amount for COLA? I know the military got a COLA stipend for living in Hawaii, and it was a good chunk, off the top of my head... the FBI too.
Otherwise, it is just the market rate for whatever job, in whatever locale.
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We get $50/month for added utilities costs from working at home and have been since mid-2020. We also have a full computer set-up and printer provided for home.
You must work for a far better employer than any I've ever worked for. Other than the dock, laptop, and monitors, I've never had anything provided.
I've never had a company provided phone. The expectation has always been to use your personal phone for work-related business.
I thought basically Federal jobs were the ones who had a specific amount for COLA? I know the military got a COLA stipend for living in Hawaii, and it was a good chunk, off the top of my head... the FBI too.
Otherwise, it is just the market rate for whatever job, in whatever locale.
There are companies which pay the equivalent of Cola or use Fed numbers for their compensation calculation.
I thought basically Federal jobs were the ones who had a specific amount for COLA? I know the military got a COLA stipend for living in Hawaii, and it was a good chunk, off the top of my head... the FBI too.
Otherwise, it is just the market rate for whatever job, in whatever locale.
You probably meant "locality pay" that adjust basic pay for a GS grade with different part of country. FBI pay is a part of civil service pay system.
COLA is the annual salary adjustment based on "cost of living". The increase is across the board for all salary level.
When I moved from Alabama back to California with the government, my salary got a big bump simply because of the locality pay difference, as much as $12K - $15K.
My job moved me from San Francisco to Tennessee. I’m still being paid San Francisco money.
Yeah that's smart. You're effectively getting a big raise as your cost of living is so much lower in Tennessee.
A colleague did something smart. She transferred from Alabama to the Bay area for her government job thus getting a big bump on her pay. Several years later, she retired but her pension pay also became much higher because it uses the highest 3 years pay average to calculate her LIFE TIME payments
A LONG time ago...
--and LONG is capitalized intentionally, for emphasis (this was in the 1980s)--
I worked with a woman, who was dating the owner at a 30-person professional firm, and she had appointed herself office manager. She would not abide ANY personal business during workdays.
No personal phone calls, no browsing catalogs for personal items (this was pre-internet), certainly no personal use of company equipment, like the photocopier. Definitely no newspaper reading.
And she cross-checked that phone bill every month like a hawk. LOL.
We were allowed to come in on the weekend if we needed to use the office equipment (copier/ typewriter) for personal business. But we had to reimburse the company ten cents per page IIRC.
When the internet came along later, from what I heard, she prohibited anyone from sending e-mails directly. They all had to go through her account first. Nobody had direct internet access, either.
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Originally Posted by ChessieMom
What? LOL. I have never worked ANYWHERE that I could not accomplish personal tasks during the day. In my work, long hours and after hours work is fairly common, and it's absurd to expect a person to not be able so take care of important personal tasks that simply cannot be done at other times. I was able to flex my time as needed, as were all of my co-workers, to address these needs. Working from home simply allowed me to be even more productive in both work and personally since I no longer had to prepare for work, commute to and from, and my gas station trips were cut way down too.
Both my BIL and SIL work from home. BIL is in information technology with an insurance company and SIL (gasp) works for IRS. I know they are actually working, not just playing computer games or shopping online.
a good friend of 30 plus yrs was a Sr. Manager with IRS. He quit near end of COVID lockdowns due to frustration that Gov't was not working. People were getting paid but not doing much work. He hated that reality and went to work in private industry.
A LONG time ago...
--and LONG is capitalized intentionally, for emphasis (this was in the 1980s)--
I worked with a woman, who was dating the owner at a 30-person professional firm, and she had appointed herself office manager. She would not abide ANY personal business during workdays.
No personal phone calls, no browsing catalogs for personal items (this was pre-internet), certainly no personal use of company equipment, like the photocopier. Definitely no newspaper reading.
And she cross-checked that phone bill every month like a hawk. LOL.
We were allowed to come in on the weekend if we needed to use the office equipment (copier/ typewriter) for personal business. But we had to reimburse the company ten cents per page IIRC.
When the internet came along later, from what I heard, she prohibited anyone from sending e-mails directly. They all had to go through her account first. Nobody had direct internet access, either.
They used to have a system on our phone where if you a) made more than 20 phone calls a month to the same number, and/or b) had any non-business calls that lasted more than 20 minutes, you had to pay for them.
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