Cost-of-Living Allowances (Nonforeign Areas); Honolulu, HI

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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is publishing an interim regulation to increase the cost-of-living allowance (COLA) rate paid to General Schedule, U.S. Postal Service, and certain other Federal employees in the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii. This increase is a result of cost-of-living surveys conducted by OPM in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This regulation increases the Honolulu COLA rate from 22.5 percent to 25 percent. Additionally, OPM is broadening the composition of the Miscellaneous Expense Category used in the COLA methodology. This change allows the addition of other types of expenses to that category, including the use of private education (K-12) data collected in the 1997 surveys. This amendment will permit OPM additional flexibility in organizing survey data under the COLA model.