2024 GS Locality Pay Raise and Table for Rest of The USA

Most GS employees’ compensation is made up of base pay and locality pay, covering 55 geographic areas, which are based on surveys of pay levels for non-federal workers in a specific geographic area. This is to account for the different cost of living standards in different areas of the country.

For areas that are not covered by a specific locality pay area, the “REST OF UNITED STATES locality pay chart is used.

The rest of the US GS pay scale table for 2023 is shown below, which incorporates the GS base pay increase and locality payment adjustment.

2024 REST OF UNITED STATES Pay Chart

In 2024 General Schedule (GS) raise for the rest of the USA will be 4.99%, based on the 2024 GS base pay raise (4.7%) and locality adjustment (16.82%). This is the highest increase in nearly two decades and over 1.5 million workers could benefit from this raise.

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2024 GS Pay Scale – THE LOCALITY PAY AREA OF REST OF U.S.

The General Schedule (GS) is a system used by the federal government to classify and pay its employees. The GS system has 15 grades, ranging from GS-1 (the lowest) to GS-15 (the highest), and within each grade are steps ranging from 1 to 10, worth approximately 3% of the salary.

The pay adjustments above will take place from the first pay period beginning on or after Jan 4, 2023, which is Jan 15, 2023 for the biweekly pay period cycle.

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