Many full-timers working directly for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Laboratory received a modest raise earlier this month as part of broad retention efforts by the National Nuclear Security Administration, according to a letter from the lab’s director.
“We are pleased that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has granted this increase,” Thomas Mason, director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory wrote in an email to employees. “The Laboratory implemented this adjustment as part of our continuous effort to review compensation and benefits and our desire to remain an employer of choice in an increasingly competitive labor market.”
The salary increases went into effect on March 7, Mason said. It applied to regular and term employees but not to so-called casual employees, students, post-docs or craft — the last term refers broadly to people in construction trades, who are often subcontractors. Also, anyone who turned in a resignation on March 14 or earlier was not eligible for the increase.
Triad National Security, the NNSA’s management and operations contract for Los Alamos, employs more than 70% of the lab’s total workforce, which including subcontractors, craft workers, post-doctoral researchers and others totals about 13,800 people, according to the lab’s website.
