In 2011-2013, civilian federal employees received no pay raise at all. Check out the pay raise trends in the chart below.

Looking for federal employment can be confusing ... Most white-collar jobs are in the General Schedule (GS) pay system and blue-collar jobs are in the Wage Grade (WG) pay system.

Two million of them will be military. The White House estimates that 3.5 million federal workers will have to go without pay if the government shuts down. Roughly 2 million of them will be military.