Maybe wahoo?

Just grabbed this tidbit from the newsclipping service to which I have a subscription:

If you're living in the Washington, D.C., region, you could be headed for the highest overall pay hike in the nation. With locality pay included, federal employees in the capital area could get as much as a 4.49 percent boost, according to Mike Orenstein, a spokesman for the Office of Personnel Management. That figure assumes lawmakers stick with the 3.5 percent raise they've approved in preliminary versions of appropriations bills, rather than the 3 percent President Bush requested.

Find the rest of the article here.

Now, that's just the regular COLA adjustment; it doesn't have anything to do with incentive pay or step or grade increases that individuals might merit. That's a mighty tasty COLA.

Every little bit helps! Keep your fingers crossed for this underpaid federal employee.