The Biden administration has moved to increase the minimum wage for all federal employees to $15 an hour, according to a Jan. 21 release from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The change will boost pay for 67,000 of the total 2.2 million federal employees. Most of those impacted work for the Department of Defense (DOD). Others include the Departments of Agriculture, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, according to OPM. “We know that paying a living wage provides a myriad of benefits, from recruitment to retention to increased productivity, and more. It’s also the right thing to do,” said OPM Director Kiran Ahuja in a statement. “We should strive for every federal job to be a good job, and we want to ensure that every federal employee has a pathway to the middle class.” The new directive comes as part of an executive order President Joe Biden signed at the start of …