Pursuant to the release of the July 2025 Consumer Price Index – Urban Wage and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), and in accordance with Article 9.1.E , the third COLA adjustment of the 2024-2027 National Agreement will result in a $790.00 increase for eligible rural carriers. This COLA adjustment will be effective September 6, 2025, (PP 2025-20). All COLA adjustments are based on a 40-hour evaluation with proportional application to those route evaluations over 40 hours. The increase should appear in paychecks dated October 10, 2025.
NOTE: All leave replacement employees will receive an additional 1% salary adjustment annually in lieu of COLA adjustments.
Updated pay schedules are posted here and will also be included in a future edition of the National Rural Letter Carrier Magazine.
Why is this COLA coming one pay period later than the others?
Obviously we were out of contract in 2024, but 2023 and 2022 were PP19 and this is taking effect in PP20, yet in the schedule the NRLCA released the backpay in February stops at the end of PP18, so right now there’s a gap in pay periods to which any of the past two nor the coming COLA will apply.