Each month, FMA writes a “Hear it from FMA” column for the monthly FEDManager.com newsletter. Our most recent column focused on the issue of paying feds more as a matter of fiscal responsibility. In any workforce, filling a vacant position costs significant amounts of money. With more than 60 percent of federal employees staying for less than two years after being hired, these costs are unacceptably high. Paying federal workers significantly more to encourage them to stay in the federal government would be an excellent cost-saving measure, and would have major upsides for taxpayers and federal workers. To read the full column, click here: Be Fiscally Responsible – Pay Feds a Market Wage to End Expensive Turnover — FEDmanager.

We here at the national office plan to further explore this issue over the next year, and to attempt to work with lawmakers to cut costs by significantly increasing salaries. To make the best case we can, we need good data and information. If you have any information to contribute on hiring costs in the federal government, causes of turnover, turnover rates in your agency, or any other relevant information, we would love to hear it! Please reach out to Adam Kay at akay@fedmanagers.org.