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🗺️ GS Pay Scale 2025

The complete 2025 General Schedule pay scale: the base table for all 15 grades and 10 steps plus every locality pay area, kept as a verified archive of the rates that were in effect that year — transcribed directly from OPM's published 2025 tables. See the current year for today's pay.

Incorporating the 1.7% General Schedule Increase

📁 Archive — these were the 2025 rates. See the current 2026 pay scale →

Verified 2026-07-30 against Salary Table 2025-GS (effective 2025-01-01)

Verified 2026-07-30 against OPM 2025 General Schedule locality pay tables index (effective 2025-01-01)

2025 GS base pay table (before locality)

GradeStep 1Step 2Step 3Step 4Step 5Step 6Step 7Step 8Step 9Step 10
GS-1$22,360$23,110$23,853$24,594$25,336$25,770$26,506$27,247$27,277$27,970
GS-2$25,142$25,740$26,573$27,277$27,583$28,394$29,205$30,016$30,827$31,638
GS-3$27,434$28,348$29,262$30,176$31,090$32,004$32,918$33,832$34,746$35,660
GS-4$30,795$31,822$32,849$33,876$34,903$35,930$36,957$37,984$39,011$40,038
GS-5$34,454$35,602$36,750$37,898$39,046$40,194$41,342$42,490$43,638$44,786
GS-6$38,407$39,687$40,967$42,247$43,527$44,807$46,087$47,367$48,647$49,927
GS-7$42,679$44,102$45,525$46,948$48,371$49,794$51,217$52,640$54,063$55,486
GS-8$47,265$48,841$50,417$51,993$53,569$55,145$56,721$58,297$59,873$61,449
GS-9$52,205$53,945$55,685$57,425$59,165$60,905$62,645$64,385$66,125$67,865
GS-10$57,489$59,405$61,321$63,237$65,153$67,069$68,985$70,901$72,817$74,733
GS-11$63,163$65,268$67,373$69,478$71,583$73,688$75,793$77,898$80,003$82,108
GS-12$75,706$78,230$80,754$83,278$85,802$88,326$90,850$93,374$95,898$98,422
GS-13$90,025$93,026$96,027$99,028$102,029$105,030$108,031$111,032$114,033$117,034
GS-14$106,382$109,928$113,474$117,020$120,566$124,112$127,658$131,204$134,750$138,296
GS-15$125,133$129,304$133,475$137,646$141,817$145,988$150,159$154,330$158,501$162,672

Locality pay areas (adjusted tables)

Each area page shows its official 2025 locality percentage and the full adjusted grade-step table as published by OPM.

Albany-Schenectady, NY-MA20.77%Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Las Vegas, NM18.33%Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL23.79%Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX20.35%Birmingham-Hoover-Talladega, AL18.24%Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT-ME-VT32.58%Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Olean, NY22.41%Burlington-South Burlington-Barre, VT19.45%Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC19.67%Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI30.86%Cincinnati-Wilmington-Maysville, OH-KY-IN21.93%Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH-PA22.23%Colorado Springs, CO20.15%Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH22.15%Corpus Christi-Kingsville-Alice, TX17.63%Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK27.26%Davenport-Moline, IA-IL18.93%Dayton-Springfield-Kettering, OH21.42%Denver-Aurora, CO30.52%Des Moines-Ames-West Des Moines, IA18.01%Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor, MI29.12%Fresno-Madera-Hanford, CA17.65%Harrisburg-Lebanon, PA19.43%Hartford-East Hartford, CT-MA32.08%Houston-The Woodlands, TX35%Huntsville-Decatur, AL-TN21.91%Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie, IN18.15%Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS18.97%Laredo, TX21.59%Las Vegas-Henderson, NV-AZ19.57%Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA36.47%Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale, FL24.67%Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI22.42%Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI27.62%New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA37.95%Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, NE-IA18.23%Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL17.93%Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD28.99%Phoenix-Mesa, AZ22.45%Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, PA-OH-WV21.03%Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA26.13%Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC22.24%Reno-Fernley, NV17.52%Rest of U.S.17.06%Richmond, VA22.28%Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY17.88%Sacramento-Roseville, CA-NV29.76%San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, TX18.78%San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA33.72%San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA46.34%Seattle-Tacoma, WA31.57%Spokane-Spokane Valley-Coeur d'Alene, WA-ID17.67%St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL20.03%State of Alaska32.36%State of Hawaii22.21%Tucson-Nogales, AZ19.28%Virginia Beach-Norfolk, VA-NC18.8%Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA33.94%

Other years

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Official source: OPM — 2026 General Schedule pay tables

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