OPM to establish higher pay for certain national security employees

About this episode

The episode discusses new regulations allowing agencies to pay up to $400,000 for certain national security employees.

Agencies will soon be able to pay as much as $400,000 a year to certain employees with skillsets in the national security sector. President Donald Trump told the Office of Personnel Management on Friday to establish new regulations to pay experts in specific fields related to supply chain resilience, secure access to critical minerals and advanced technologies and advance priority investment programs essential to our national defense and economic security. The memo says this increase in the top line pay for these positions is necessary to advance the rapid recruitment of the exceptionally skilled investment, engineering, financial and legal professionals needed to expand the nation’s capacity. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Topics covered

• national security
• government pay
• employment
• regulations
• economic security

Keywords

• national security
• pay increase
• Office of Personnel Management
• employment regulations
• Donald Trump

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Organizations: Office of Personnel Management, Federal News Network

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