About GS Pay Tables

What this is

GS Pay Tables publishes the federal General Schedule pay tables with the parts that the published tables leave out: what each salary is worth after local prices, where the statutory ceiling quietly stops raises, and which counties belong to which locality.

Where the numbers come from

Pay figures come from the Office of Personnel Management's published salary tables. Rather than copying them, the build recomputes every rate from the nationwide base table and the locality percentage, applies the statutory ceiling, and then compares its own result against the published figure — all 8,700 of them. If a single cell disagrees by a dollar, the site does not publish.

Price levels are Regional Price Parities from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. They lag the pay tables by about two years, and metropolitan boundaries do not line up exactly with locality boundaries, so the nearest metropolitan area is used as a proxy and labelled as such.

Corrections

If a figure here is wrong, say which page and what you expected. Corrections are made against the source data, not against the page.

What this is not

This is an independent reference, not a government service and not financial or employment advice. For an official figure, go to OPM. For your own pay, go to your HR office — special rates, agency systems and individual circumstances all change the answer.