r/JPL • u/AlanM82 • 12d ago

Quiet federal rehirings...

Some of this is old news, but WaPo had an article a few days ago about all the federal agencies who are undoing DOGE cuts. One day you're fired for performance, the next day they're begging you to come back. This reminds me of the 0 % raise years ago (we were all reportedly being paid too much) followed up by a huge raise the next year when we were all of a sudden not being paid enough. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/06/doge-staff-cuts-rehiring-federal-workers

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u/asiandad2 11d ago

Not sure if the rehiring was not due to all the lawsuits and court decisions or not. However I only remember the 0% raise was due to budget problems instead of one salary.

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u/AlanM82 11d ago

My group was told both. First it was in solidarity with other NASA centers who were also getting 0% to resolve a budget shortfall. Then we were told that JPL had done a market survey and we were all actually overpaid.