"All in all, it's been a challenging but productive
year for the agency... [FAA employees did] whatever was necessary
to keep the [air traffic] system safe -- and after all other
factors are taken into account, that's the one that matters the
most."
Source: FAA acting administrator Robert
Sturgell. Most of the FAA's 45,000 employees will receive a 3.08
percent raise this year, and an additional one-percent raise, on
average, based on geographic location. Nearly 85 percent of agency
workers are also eligible to receive additional raises, based on
individual job performance... but overall, FAA employees failed to
meet all the agency's performance goals for 2007, including in the
areas of customer service and financial management. Had those goals