When will federal employees get back pay now that the shutdown is over?

Washington — The much than 1.4 cardinal national employees who person gone without wage during the 43-day authorities shutdown could statesman getting paychecks arsenic soon arsenic this Sunday, portion others volition person to hold until adjacent Wednesday, Nov. 19. 

The wage docket was laid retired successful an agency-by-agency projection by the White House's Office of Management and Budget. The memo was archetypal reported by Semafor, and an OMB authoritative confirmed its contents to CBS News. 

Hundreds of thousands of indispensable employees continued moving during the shutdown without pay, portion nonessential employees were furloughed. Both groups are entitled to backmost wage for the paychecks they missed portion the authorities was closed. 

The medication has a extremity of completing its database of backlogged payments by Nov. 19. 

Agencies were told by the medication to get their payments retired "expeditiously and accurately." The specifics alteration from bureau to agency, but astir of the archetypal post-shutdown paychecks to employees volition lone see wage from Oct. 1 to Nov. 1. They volition beryllium constricted to basal pay, meaning nary bonuses, overtime oregon benefits. Pay for days aft Nov. 1, arsenic good arsenic for overtime oregon bonuses, volition beryllium issued successful the adjacent wage period. 

Hundreds of radical hold successful enactment arsenic World Central Kitchen provides escaped meals to national employees and their families during the authorities shutdown successful Washington, D.C., connected Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. Rod Lamkey / AP

Up archetypal are Army and non-Army civilian employees astatine the Defense Department, arsenic good arsenic staffers astatine the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Energy and Health and Human Services. Their paychecks are projected to beryllium processed connected Sunday, Nov. 16. The checks volition see basal wage and payments for overtime and hazard pay.

More than 150,000 employees astatine the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, National Science Foundation, Social Security Administration, Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Departments of Education, State, Interior and Transportation are expected to get their paychecks connected Monday, Nov. 17. This lone includes basal pay, with corrections acceptable to beryllium made successful the adjacent wage cycle.

Employees astatine the General Services Administration and Office of Personnel Management are acceptable to person their paycheck connected Saturday, Nov. 15. These checks volition lone see basal pay.

Small Business Administration employees arsenic good arsenic those astatine the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Labor and Treasury are expected to person their backmost wage payments connected Wednesday, Nov. 19. These checks screen the full play of the shutdown, including from Nov. 1 to Nov. 13.

Federal employees going without wage became a large symptom constituent during the Senate's combat implicit backing the government, and was 1 of respective factors that yet pushed 8 Senate Democrats to articulation Republicans to extremity the stalemate. The bundle cleared the House connected Wednesday evening, and President Trump rapidly signed it into law, ending the shutdown.

The authorities extended astir authorities backing until Jan. 30, raising the imaginable of different shutdown combat successful the caller year. Other parts of the authorities are funded done September 2026.