The new party of no?

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

He's actually giving 3 out of 4 a raise during the freeze so you should be happy.

In many companies, not only government, COLA and base pay step schedules for positions are separate, and calculated separately in the budget process. See unions.

A starting policeman may get $30,000 a year, after 1 year $33,000, after 5 more $38,000. That is separate from COLA raises (which are variable tied to economy)

Seeing the base pay step schedules stay normal, while the COLA has been taken away, is absolutely a net loss for the employee. If they were hired thinking they would get a 4% raise every year, but now are only getting 3% (their step raise, no COLA) - yeah, they have had part of their pay frozen.

In this case, 1.3 billion is not paid out on the bottom line of the budget. The normal raises going on as part of that budget doesn't change the bottom line, the 1.3 billion was calculated on top of, inclusive, of that.