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by jermaustin1
3527 days ago
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Just looked at the Locality Adjustments, and as a person who has/does live(d) in NYC and Houston, TX, for them to have pretty much the exact same adjustment doesn't make ANY sense. My rent in Houston was $1100/mo for a 2 bed, 2 bath 1200 sqft luxury apartment in a nice development with hiking and biking trails. My rent in NYC for a 1 bed, 1 bath, 600sqft luxury apartment in a nice building with a doorman every other day (idk why) is $2300. More than 4 times the price per sqft. Every day staples are 20-100% higher in NYC than Houston. Car insurance is almost triple. Parking which used to be free and assigned is now in a garage and $200-400/mo depending on where you are (thankfully mine is in the rent). I think the government needs to re-evaluate their adjustments. |
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Locality is to make a job's salary competitive with other job salaries in the local market, whereas COLA is exactly what it sounds like.
Houston has a high locality rate because of all the high-paying jobs there that one could potentially get instead of the govt job.
I work for the govt and receive both locality and COLA, albeit the COLA is way too low in my opinion (Honolulu).