Fema Employment
Federal Government Salary Verification?
The Federal job application asks for salary information from all of your previous jobs. Does anyone know if the government verifies salary? I'm not going to lie on my application, but would like to know how to correctly answer this question... Is it acceptable to list your salary to include incentives? For example, if my current company GIVES a guaranteed extra 5% contribution into a 401k plan, can I add this to my salary? Not to be confused, the 5% is NOT a match, rather they give you 5% on top of a match up to 6%. So if I decide not to contribue anything into my 401k, the company will give me 5% of my salary into a retirement savings. If I decide to contribute 6%, they will match the 6%, in addition to the free 5%. I'm hesitant to add the incentive because if the government calls to verify my information, it's going to be different than my base salary. Please let me know if you have any insight or suggestions. Thanks
Public Comments
- You can bet that some HR person somewhere will do some verification, especially if your last job's salary is/was higher than the position you're applying for, as this will impact your starting salary. The amount you need to put down is your straight-up salary - just the plain ol' gross pay you receive, nothing more, nothing less.
