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Do Government Contractors Get Paid During a Shutdown?
When Congress ended the 2025 shutdown on November 12, 2025, it did not forget the people who had gone unpaid. Section 116 of Public Law 119-37 made federal employees whole. Section 120 rescinded reduction-in-force notices issued during the lapse and returned those employees to du… more
Which Jobs Actually Require a Secret Clearance – and Which Ones Only Say They Do
On October 1, 2017, 1,198,684 people held eligibility for access to classified information and were in access to nothing at all. No document, no program, no compartment. They were 29.7 percent of the 4,030,625 individuals ODNI counted as eligible that year, and it is the most rec… more
Imminent Danger Pay, Hardship, and Post Differential: How OCONUS Cleared Pay Is Built
Congress capped imminent danger pay at $225 a month. Not $225 a day, not a percentage of salary, and not negotiable. 37 U.S.C. 310 fixes the ceiling, the services accrue it at $7.50 for each day in a designated area, and a full year maxes at $2,700. Most people searching "imminen… more
What DCSA Actually Does: The Agency That Decides Whether Your New Hire Can Start
High-risk federal vetting cases closed in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025 averaged 220 days start to finish. Twelve of those days were intake. Forty belonged to the adjudicator. The remaining 168, better than three-quarters of the total, were the background investigation itself… more
What Private Security Contractors Actually Make: The OCONUS Pay Bands Nobody Publishes
From August 2008 to April 2025 the Pentagon published a quarterly census of the contractors working for the Defense Department in the U.S. Central Command theater. The final edition counted 20,356 of them, 6,301 in Iraq and Syria. It also contained this sentence. "The Department … more