GS Pay Calculator
Look up 2026 General Schedule pay for any grade, step, and locality. Returns the exact annual and hourly figures from the official OPM tables — base pay plus your locality percentage — for all 15 grades, 10 steps, and 58 locality areas including Rest of U.S.
Works offline — your inputs never leave this device. How that works
Not in a listed area? "Rest of U.S." applies to the remainder of the continental U.S.
Verified 2026-07-30 against Salary Table 2026-GS (effective 2026-01-01)
Verified 2026-07-30 against OPM 2026 General Schedule locality pay tables index (effective 2026-01-01)
Estimate only — not legal, financial, or benefits advice. Only OPM can determine your actual benefit.
Official source: OPM — 2026 General Schedule pay tables ↗
🎓 Understand this tool
What it is
A lookup tool for General Schedule pay: pick grade, step, and locality area and see the exact annual and hourly figures from the official OPM tables for the selected year.
How it works
Every figure is read directly from the published OPM pay-table data — the base table plus your locality area's table, which incorporates its locality percentage. Cells limited by the Executive Schedule Level IV cap show the capped value exactly as OPM publishes it. Nothing is recomputed or approximated.
Getting the most from it
- Choose your grade and step, then your locality area — use Rest of U.S. if your location is not in a listed area.
- Check the locality percentage shown against your SF-50 or offer letter.
- Open your locality's full table page to see all grades and steps side by side.
- Use the effective-year selector at rollover to compare the old and new tables.
Reading your result
The annual figure is base-plus-locality basic pay before deductions; the hourly figure is the OPM-published hourly rate. Special rates, law-enforcement tables, and pay caps for certain positions can differ from the standard table shown.
What it can't tell you
It cannot determine your correct grade or step, apply special salary rates, or reflect within-grade increase timing. Your HR office and OPM's official tables are the authority for your position.
Frequently asked questions
Each locality area has an OPM-set percentage added on top of the GS base table — the adjusted annual rate is the base rate increased by that percentage, as published in the official locality tables. This tool reads the published OPM tables directly rather than recomputing them.
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