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A year after President Donald Trump ordered a pay-freeze for federal workers, he’s now signed an executive order granting white-collar federal employees their largest raise in a decade.

The order finalized a 2.6 percent across-the-board raise passed as part of a larger bill on December 20, according to the Washington Post. But Washington-Baltimore-area employees will receive an even larger increase of 3.52 percent, thanks to locality-based pay raise calculations.

Raises in other years have hovered between 1 and 2 percent (if they happened at all), per the Post.

The raise will go into effect, for most federal employees, with the pay period beginning on January 5, the Post reported.

Per a 2020 salary table, the Washington-Baltimore “locality” includes parts of Virginia, Delaware, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The salary cap for this area is limited to $170,800.

The Washington-Baltimore area’s increase of 3.52 percent is the highest among localities, followed by the San Francisco and Seattle areas, where federal workers will receive a 3.4 percent-raise.

The order comes as another shift in decisions for Trump, who first called for no pay increase in 2020 before supporting the 2.6 percent raise in August.

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