Federal workers expected to start receiving paychecks on Saturday
by Sarah Fortinsky - 11/13/25 8:01 AM ET
The first wave of federal workers will start receiving paychecks on Saturday as the government begins to reopen after a record-long shutdown.
A senior administration official told The Hill’s sister network NewsNation that paychecks will start going out this weekend and the administration aims to pay all federal workers by Wednesday.
A memo, obtained by Semafor, detailed the payment projection schedule from agency to agency, with each processing its payments independently.
A senior administration official told Semafor the White House “has urged agencies to get their payments out expeditiously and accurately” so workers are not left “waiting longer than necessary.”
Saturday will be the projected back pay processing date for more than 12,000 employees at the General Services Administration (GSA) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Semafor reported. A senior administration official confirmed the reporting to NewsNation.
GSA and OPM paychecks “will only include base pay,” and further corrections will be “made in the next pay cycle,” Semafor reported, citing the memo.
Employees at the departments of Energy, Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services are projected to receive their paychecks starting Sunday, Nov. 16. The Defense Department’s Army and non-Army civilian employees are also projected to receive their first paychecks on Sunday.
The memo stated that the paychecks “will include standard pay as well as payments” for things like overtime and hazard pay.
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