GS Pay Scale | 2024 General Schedule Pay Scale for Federal Employees

2024 GS Pay Scales | General Schedule Pay Scale | WG Pay Scale | Executive Pay Scales

On this page you will find government pay scale & salary information for various pay grades & localities in 2024. All General Schedule (GS) government employees in the U.S. earn more than the base rate pay through locality adjustments. Locality pay rates for all areas are listed on this site. For those not in a specific locality area use the table titled Rest of U.S. The GS-9 step-1 pay on the Base Rate Chart is $1,332. The same grade pays $59,966 on the Rest of U.S. chart and $74,642 in the San Jose, San Francisco-Oakland areas. Look up the locality tables for your metropolitan area to determine the actual salary for your location.

General Schedule employees will receive an across-the-board federal pay raise of 4.7% in 2024 plus a locality pay adjustment. The 2024 pay charts are now available. Some federal employees will be getting raises as high as 15.5% up to 33% in 2024 due to locality area “expansion”. More counties are moving from the “Rest of US” area into established locality areas with much higher rates.

2024 Annual Rates by GS Pay grade and Step

Approximately 10 percent of total federal non-postal employment is classified under the Wage Grade (WG) blue-collar pay schedules. Wage Grade workers, typically those who work in the trades or general labor, are placed in a five step pay system and their pay is based on competitive rates that are established by an annual wage survey. The Department of Defense employs the largest number of Wage Grade workers. If you work in this group view the Wage Grade Rate Tables for these occupations. Just look for your GS pay grade and pay grade step to find your annual rate.

Salary Charts & Pay Information:

2024 Base Rate Salary Chart
2024 Hourly Rate Schedule
Locality Pay Chart
General Schedule (GS) – A breakdown of the GS pay system
Wage Grade Occupations
- Wage Grade Salary Charts – Trades and labor wages
2024 Executive & Senior Level Employee Pay Tables
Special Compensations Systems
- Physician’s Comparability Allowance
2024 Senior Executive Service Salary
What is the Starting GS Salary
- How to Negotiate a Higher Starting Salary
Pay-Related Legislative Changes
Additional Resources
- Special Rates
- Hazardous Duty Pay
- Law Enforcement Rates
- Executive Pay
- Physicians’ Comparability Allowances
- NAFI Conversions to GS Positions (Guidance)
- 2024 Leave & Schedule Excel Chart (FREE Excel chart tracks actual leave balances)

2024 BASE RATE SALARY CHART

INCORPORATING THE 4.7% GENERAL SCHEDULE INCREASE

EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2024

Grade	Step 1	Step 2	Step 3	Step 4	Step 5	Step 6	Step 7	Step 8	Step 9	Step 10	WGI
1	21986	22724	23454	24183	24912	25339	26063	26792	26821	27502	VARIES
2	24722	25310	26129	26821	27124	27922	28720	29518	30316	31114	VARIES
3	26975	27874	28773	29672	30571	31470	32369	33268	34167	35066	899
4	30280	31289	32298	33307	34316	35325	36334	37343	38352	39361	1009
5	33878	35007	36136	37265	38394	39523	40652	41781	42910	44039	1129
6	37765	39024	40283	41542	42801	44060	45319	46578	47837	49096	1259
7	41966	43365	44764	46163	47562	48961	50360	51759	53158	54557	1399
8	46475	48024	49573	51122	52671	54220	55769	57318	58867	60416	1549
9	51332	53043	54754	56465	58176	59887	61598	63309	65020	66731	1711
10	56528	58412	60296	62180	64064	65948	67832	69716	71600	73484	1884
11	62107	64177	66247	68317	70387	72457	74527	76597	78667	80737	2070
12	74441	76922	79403	81884	84365	86846	89327	91808	94289	96770	2481
13	88520	91471	94422	97373	100324	103275	106226	109177	112128	115079	2951
14	104604	108091	111578	115065	118552	122039	125526	129013	132500	135987	3487
15	123041	127142	131243	135344	139445	143546	147647	151748	155849	159950	4101

Check out the 2024 hourly GS pay scale below. Annual base rates by grade and step

Note: This is a base rate chart. All federal employees receive pay adjustments above the base rate chart in the form of locality pay adjustments. To determine what your annual pay will be for your location view our Locality Pay Charts, links listed below.

2024 HOURLY RATE SALARY CHART

SALARY TABLE 2024-GS
INCORPORATING THE 4.7% GENERAL SCHEDULE INCREASE
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2024
Hourly Basic (B) Rates by Grade and Step
Hourly Title 5 Overtime (O) Rates for FLSA-Exempt Employees by Grade and Step

Grade	B/O	Step 1	Step 2	Step 3	Step 4	Step 5	Step 6	Step 7	Step 8	Step 9	Step 10
1	B	10.53	10.89	11.24	11.59	11.94	12.14	12.49	12.84	12.85	13.18
O	15.80	16.34	16.86	17.39	17.91	18.21	18.74	19.26	19.28	19.77
2	B	11.85	12.13	12.52	12.85	13.00	13.38	13.76	14.14	14.53	14.91
O	17.78	18.20	18.78	19.28	19.50	20.07	20.64	21.21	21.80	22.37
3	B	12.93	13.36	13.79	14.22	14.65	15.08	15.51	15.94	16.37	16.80
O	19.40	20.04	20.69	21.33	21.98	22.62	23.27	23.91	24.56	25.20
4	B	14.51	14.99	15.48	15.96	16.44	16.93	17.41	17.89	18.38	18.86
O	21.77	22.49	23.22	23.94	24.66	25.40	26.12	26.84	27.57	28.29
5	B	16.23	16.77	17.31	17.86	18.40	18.94	19.48	20.02	20.56	21.10
O	24.35	25.16	25.97	26.79	27.60	28.41	29.22	30.03	30.84	31.65
6	B	18.10	18.70	19.30	19.91	20.51	21.11	21.71	22.32	22.92	23.52
O	27.15	28.05	28.95	29.87	30.77	31.67	32.57	33.48	34.38	35.28
7	B	20.11	20.78	21.45	22.12	22.79	23.46	24.13	24.80	25.47	26.14
O	30.17	31.17	32.18	33.18	34.19	35.19	36.20	37.20	38.21	39.21
8	B	22.27	23.01	23.75	24.50	25.24	25.98	26.72	27.46	28.21	28.95
O	33.41	34.52	35.63	36.75	37.86	38.97	40.08	40.64	40.64	40.64
9	B	24.60	25.42	26.24	27.06	27.88	28.70	29.52	30.33	31.15	31.97
O	36.90	38.13	39.36	40.59	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64
10	B	27.09	27.99	28.89	29.79	30.70	31.60	32.50	33.40	34.31	35.21
O	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64
11	B	29.76	30.75	31.74	32.73	33.73	34.72	35.71	36.70	37.69	38.69
O	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64
12	B	35.67	36.86	38.05	39.24	40.42	41.61	42.80	43.99	45.18	46.37
O	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	40.64	41.61	42.80	43.99	45.18	46.37
13	B	42.41	43.83	45.24	46.66	48.07	49.48	50.90	52.31	53.73	55.14
O	42.41	43.83	45.24	46.66	48.07	49.48	50.90	52.31	53.73	55.14
14	B	50.12	51.79	53.46	55.13	56.80	58.48	60.15	61.82	63.49	65.16
O	50.12	51.79	53.46	55.13	56.80	58.48	60.15	61.82	63.49	65.16
15	B	58.96	60.92	62.89	64.85	66.82	68.78	70.75	72.71	74.68	76.64
O	58.96	60.92	62.89	64.85	66.82	68.78	70.75	72.71	74.68	76.64

Note: This is a base rate chart. All federal employees receive pay adjustments above the base rate chart in the form of locality pay adjustments. To determine the hourly rate for your location, view our Locality Pay Charts for your area.SALARY TABLE 2022 – RUS

SALARY TABLE 2024-RUS

INCORPORATING THE 4.7% GENERAL SCHEDULE INCREASE AND A LOCALITY PAYMENT OF 16.82%
FOR THE LOCALITY PAY AREA OF REST OF U.S.
TOTAL INCREASE: 4.99%

EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2024

Grade	Step 1	Step 2	Step 3	Step 4	Step 5	Step 6	Step 7	Step 8	Step 9	Step 10
1	25684	26546	27399	28251	29102	29601	30447	31298	31332	32128
2	28880	29567	30524	31332	31686	32618	33551	34483	35415	36347
3	31512	32562	33613	34663	35713	36763	37813	38864	39914	40964
4	35373	36552	37731	38909	40088	41267	42445	43624	44803	45982
5	39576	40895	42214	43533	44852	46171	47490	48809	50127	51446
6	44117	45588	47059	48529	50000	51471	52942	54412	55883	57354
7	49025	50659	52293	53928	55562	57196	58831	60465	62099	63733
8	54292	56102	57911	59721	61530	63340	65149	66959	68768	70578
9	59966	61965	63964	65962	67961	69960	71959	73958	75956	77955
10	66036	68237	70438	72639	74840	77040	79241	81442	83643	85844
11	72553	74972	77390	79808	82226	84644	87062	89481	91899	94317
12	86962	89860	92759	95657	98555	101453	104352	107250	110148	113047
13	103409	106856	110304	113751	117198	120646	124093	127541	130988	134435
14	122198	126272	130345	134419	138492	142566	146639	150713	154787	158860
15	143736	148527	153318	158109	162900	167690	172481	177272	182063	186854

Annual Rates by Grade and Step

Note: This is a base rate chart for those not covered in one of the 57 Locality Areas. If your town is not included in a specific locality area, this chart reflects your pay.

General Schedule (GS) How it Works

General Schedule (GS) base pay varies from the GS-1 level at $21,986 per annum to $159,950 per annum at step 10 of the GS-15 grade, not including locality pay adjustments. The Senior Executive Service salary tops out at $226,300 per annum. The average annual salary for full-time non-postal employees has increased to just over $94,500 in 2023. Starting pay depends on the level of experience, education and complexity of the position applied for. You may also be able to negotiate your starting salary if your previous employer pay was greater than step 1 of the pay grade you are hired into.

Each GS grade has 10 pay steps. Currently, a GS-9 starts at $51,332 for step 1 in the Base Rate Table and reaches $66,731 per year at step 10 (not including locality pay adjustments). At the GS-9 grade, each pay step adds $1,711 to the annual salary. Pay steps are earned based on time in service and the employee’s work performance. General Schedule employees are referred to as white-collar workers under the federal classification system. There are 53 locality pay areas.

Locality pay adjustments basically level the playing field for all federal employees across the country in different major metropolitan areas. OPM is added the following Locality Pay Areas in 2024: Fresno-Madera-Hanford, California; Reno-Fernley, Nevada; Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, New York; and Spokane-Spokane Valley-Coeur d’Alene, Washington-Idaho last year.

The 57 designated locality area salaries are adjusted by comparing GS and non-Federal pay in each locality pay area, based on salary surveys conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The lowest adjustment to the basic rate schedule listed above is for the “Rest of the US.” This group includes federal employees that do not reside in one of the 57 locality rate areas. The highest locality rate is assigned to for the San Jose, San-Francisco-Oakland California locality area. You can determine what your salary would be at any location by using OPM’s salary calculator that you will find under resources on this page.

Locality Pay Tables (Click on the locality area to view the pay table)

Historical Rates

UPDATE: Six additional areas were added in 2018, one for Virginia Beach, VA and a second one for those working in and around Burlington, Vt. There were thirteen cities added to the 2016 locality rate tables. The 13 cities included Albany, N.Y.; Albuquerque, N.M.; Austin, Texas; Charlotte, N.C.; Colorado Springs, Co.; Davenport, Iowa; Harrisburg, Pa.; Kansas City, Mo.; Laredo, Texas; Las Vegas, Nev.; Palm Bay, Fla.; St. Louis, Mo.; and Tucson, Ariz.

BASIC PAY

It’s important to note that a locality rate is considered basic pay for computing the following, as applicable:

Deductions for benefits including retirement
Premiums for life insurance and benefits
Premium pay and premium pay limitations
Pay Advances
Severance pay
Lump-sum payments for accrued and accumulated annual leave
Post differentials under 5 U.S.C. 5925(a) and danger pay allowances under 5 U.S.C. 5928 for an employee temporarily working in a foreign area when the employee’s official worksite is located in a locality pay area
Post differentials under 5 U.S.C. 5941 and 5 CFR part 591, subpart B, for an employee temporarily working in a nonforeign area when the employee’s official worksite is located in a locality pay area” –with “Nonforeign area cost-of-living allowances and post differentials under 5 U.S.C. 5941 and 5 CFR part 591, subpart B
Relocation, recruitment, and retention incentives, supervisory differentials, and extended assignment incentives
Performance-based cash awards when the award is computed as a percentage of an employee’s rate of basic pay
GS pay administration provisions (e.g., promotions) to the extent provided in 5 CFR part 531, subpart B
Pay administration provisions for prevailing rate employees which consider rates of basic pay under the GS pay system in setting pay (except as otherwise provided in 5 CFR part 532), subject to the requirement that, if the employee’s actual locality rate would not apply at the official worksite for the prevailing rate position, that locality rate must be converted to a corresponding rate on the locality rate schedule for that official worksite; and
Grade and pay retention to the extent provided in 5 CFR part 536

Reference: 5 U.S.C. 5304(c)(2) and 5 CFR 531.610.)

Wage Grade (WG) How it Works

The government’s Personnel Classification System includes Wage Grade occupations grouped into families of like jobs. The 36 occupational families range from WG-2500 to WG-9000. Each occupational family has its own group number and title which makes it distinctive from every other family grouping. View the list of the Wage Grade Families that are concentrated in the trades and labor occupations.

Wage Grade Salary Tables

The Department of Defense (DOD) issues wage schedules and they conduct Federal Wage System (FWS) surveys. The Department of Defense’s Advisory Service maintains these rates and publishes them on their website. Visit the FWS wage schedules website for updated 2021 WG pay scales & schedules for your area.

Special Compensations Systems

There are a number of special compensation systems that augment the general schedule pay scale. Physicians receive signing bonuses for a one-year continued-service agreement and additional bonuses for two years. The Federal Aviation Administration pays employees in safety-related careers under a “Core Compensation” multi-pay band system. Organizations such as the General Accounting Office (GAO), NASA, and the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology either are exempt from or have exceptions to the GS pay system. You can search special rate schedules for your area at the OPM website.

Federal employee special pay and benefits apply to eligible civilian employee that are assigned to duty in designated foreign areas, including Iraq and Afghanistan. Three departments, including The Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the Department of Labor administer most of the pay and benefits programs offered to such employees. Certain foreign areas may be determined to have a special status due to U.S. military operations in the area or for other reasons. Pay and benefits may vary depending on pay system of the employee, the assignment location, scope and nature of duties, and nature other assignment.

As missions in overseas locations change, certain authorities and benefits can also change. We recommend that employees contact their agency’s human resources and/or benefits officers to determine if their overseas location qualifies for the authorities listed below.

OPM’s Special Foreign Rate Guidance

Physician’s Comparability Allowance (PCA)

The head of each agency must determine categories of physician positions for which there is a significant recruitment and retention problem. A PCA may be paid only to physicians serving in positions in one of the categories. In determining the categories, the agency must, as a minimum, establish as separate categories the following types of positions:

Clinical Positions: Positions primarily involving the practice of medicine or direct service to patients, involving the performance of diagnostic, preventive, or therapeutic services to patients in hospitals, clinics, public health programs, diagnostic centers, and similar settings.

Research Positions: Positions primarily involving the conduct of medical research and experimental work, including the conduct of medical work pertaining to food, drugs, cosmetics, and devices (or the review or evaluation of such medical research and experimental work), or the identification of causes or sources of disease or disease outbreaks.

Occupational Health: Positions primarily involving the evaluation of physical fitness, or the provision of initial treatment of on-the-job illness or injury, or the performance of preemployment examinations, preventive health screenings, or fitness-for-duty examinations.

Disability Evaluation and Administration of Health and Medical Programs: Positions involving disability evaluation and rating, the performance of medicolegal autopsies, training activities, or the administration of medical and health programs, including the administration of patient care or medical research and experimental programs.

PCA Payments: Agencies may pay a PCA of up to $14,000 annually to a physician with 24 months or less of service as a government physician. Agencies may pay a PCA of up to $30,000 annually to a physician with more than 24 months of service as a government physician. PCAs are subject to the aggregate limitation on pay under 5 U.S.C. 5307 and 5 CFR part 530, subpart B.

Pay – Related Legislative Changes

Additional Resources

Paid Holiday Chart
General Schedule (GS) Salary Calculator
Back Pay Calculator
Hazardous Duty Pay
Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) General Schedule Locality Pay Tables
2024 Leave & Schedule Excel Chart (FREE Excel chart tracks leave balances)
Physicians’ Comparability Allowances
Executive & Senior Level Employee Pay Tables
Federal Wage System
NAFI Conversions to GS Positions
- When a (DOD) or Coast Guard NAFI employee (as described in 5 U.S.C. 2105(c)) moves to a General Schedule (GS) position in Department of Defense or in the Coast Guard, respectively, without a break in service of more than 3 days, the employee’s pay is set as described in this OPM fact sheet based on whether the move was voluntary or involuntary.

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