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General Schedule (GS) Pay Scales

2024 GS Pay Scale

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.

Federal Pay

2018 Pay Increase 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.

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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

INCORPORATING THE 4.7% GENERAL SCHEDULE INCREASE

EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2024

GradeStep 1Step 2Step 3Step 4Step 5Step 6Step 7Step 8Step 9Step 10WGI
121986227242345424183249122533926063267922682127502VARIES
224722253102612926821271242792228720295183031631114VARIES
326975278742877329672305713147032369332683416735066899
4302803128932298333073431635325363343734338352393611009
5338783500736136372653839439523406524178142910440391129
6377653902440283415424280144060453194657847837490961259
7419664336544764461634756248961503605175953158545571399
8464754802449573511225267154220557695731858867604161549
9513325304354754564655817659887615986330965020667311711
10565285841260296621806406465948678326971671600734841884
11621076417766247683177038772457745277659778667807372070
12744417692279403818848436586846893279180894289967702481
13885209147194422973731003241032751062261091771121281150792951
141046041080911115781150651185521220391255261290131325001359873487
151230411271421312431353441394451435461476471517481558491599504101

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

GradeB/OStep 1Step 2Step 3Step 4Step 5Step 6Step 7Step 8Step 9Step 10
1B10.5310.8911.2411.5911.9412.1412.4912.8412.8513.18
O15.8016.3416.8617.3917.9118.2118.7419.2619.2819.77
2B11.8512.1312.5212.8513.0013.3813.7614.1414.5314.91
O17.7818.2018.7819.2819.5020.0720.6421.2121.8022.37
3B12.9313.3613.7914.2214.6515.0815.5115.9416.3716.80
O19.4020.0420.6921.3321.9822.6223.2723.9124.5625.20
4B14.5114.9915.4815.9616.4416.9317.4117.8918.3818.86
O21.7722.4923.2223.9424.6625.4026.1226.8427.5728.29
5B16.2316.7717.3117.8618.4018.9419.4820.0220.5621.10
O24.3525.1625.9726.7927.6028.4129.2230.0330.8431.65
6B18.1018.7019.3019.9120.5121.1121.7122.3222.9223.52
O27.1528.0528.9529.8730.7731.6732.5733.4834.3835.28
7B20.1120.7821.4522.1222.7923.4624.1324.8025.4726.14
O30.1731.1732.1833.1834.1935.1936.2037.2038.2139.21
8B22.2723.0123.7524.5025.2425.9826.7227.4628.2128.95
O33.4134.5235.6336.7537.8638.9740.0840.6440.6440.64
9B24.6025.4226.2427.0627.8828.7029.5230.3331.1531.97
O36.9038.1339.3640.5940.6440.6440.6440.6440.6440.64
10B27.0927.9928.8929.7930.7031.6032.5033.4034.3135.21
O40.6440.6440.6440.6440.6440.6440.6440.6440.6440.64
11B29.7630.7531.7432.7333.7334.7235.7136.7037.6938.69
O40.6440.6440.6440.6440.6440.6440.6440.6440.6440.64
12B35.6736.8638.0539.2440.4241.6142.8043.9945.1846.37
O40.6440.6440.6440.6440.6441.6142.8043.9945.1846.37
13B42.4143.8345.2446.6648.0749.4850.9052.3153.7355.14
O42.4143.8345.2446.6648.0749.4850.9052.3153.7355.14
14B50.1251.7953.4655.1356.8058.4860.1561.8263.4965.16
O50.1251.7953.4655.1356.8058.4860.1561.8263.4965.16
15B58.9660.9262.8964.8566.8268.7870.7572.7174.6876.64
O58.9660.9262.8964.8566.8268.7870.7572.7174.6876.64

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

GradeStep 1Step 2Step 3Step 4Step 5Step 6Step 7Step 8Step 9Step 10
125684265462739928251291022960130447312983133232128
228880295673052431332316863261833551344833541536347
331512325623361334663357133676337813388643991440964
435373365523773138909400884126742445436244480345982
539576408954221443533448524617147490488095012751446
644117455884705948529500005147152942544125588357354
749025506595229353928555625719658831604656209963733
854292561025791159721615306334065149669596876870578
959966619656396465962679616996071959739587595677955
1066036682377043872639748407704079241814428364385844
1172553749727739079808822268464487062894819189994317
128696289860927599565798555101453104352107250110148113047
13103409106856110304113751117198120646124093127541130988134435
14122198126272130345134419138492142566146639150713154787158860
15143736148527153318158109162900167690172481177272182063186854

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 Areas

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.

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.

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