GS pay scale 2026
San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, TX

58 locality pay areasPage last changed 2026-10-22

San Antonio, TX GS pay scale 2026: 18.78% locality pay

In 2026 a GS-12 step 5 here earns $102,934 with 18.78% locality pay, and prices below the national average stretch it to what $108,676 buys elsewhere.

#46 on paper, #24 after prices

+22Places gained, of 57 priced areas.

Buys at U.S. prices

$108,676BEA price level 94.7, for San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX.

Ceiling watch

ClearNo cell reaches $197,200.

Key facts

Locality pay change since 2016: +4.43 points
Pay gap, latest council estimate: 41.20%
Rate the 1990 formula would set: 34.48%
Federal civilian jobs, 2025: 38,799
Share of all jobs here: 3.30%
Largest county by federal jobs: Bexar County, TX: 36,959

Sources and methods

Every 2026 rate

A yearAn hourEvery two weeks

No cell here reaches the $197,200 statutory ceiling. Reading these tables.
Grade	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
GS-1	26,825	27,724	28,616	29,505	30,395	30,916	31,799	32,687	32,724	33,553
GS-2	30,162	30,879	31,879	32,724	33,090	34,063	35,035	36,008	36,981	37,954
GS-3	32,912	34,009	35,107	36,204	37,302	38,399	39,497	40,594	41,692	42,789
GS-4	36,944	38,176	39,408	40,639	41,871	43,103	44,335	45,566	46,798	48,030
GS-5	41,334	42,712	44,090	45,468	46,846	48,223	49,601	50,979	52,357	53,735
GS-6	46,076	47,612	49,148	50,683	52,219	53,755	55,291	56,827	58,363	59,898
GS-7	51,201	52,908	54,615	56,322	58,029	59,736	61,443	63,149	64,856	66,563
GS-8	56,703	58,593	60,483	62,373	64,262	66,152	68,042	69,932	71,822	73,711
GS-9	62,629	64,717	66,805	68,894	70,982	73,070	75,158	77,246	79,334	81,423
GS-10	68,968	71,267	73,565	75,864	78,162	80,460	82,759	85,057	87,356	89,654
GS-11	75,776	78,302	80,829	83,355	85,882	88,408	90,934	93,461	95,987	98,514
GS-12	90,823	93,850	96,878	99,906	102,934	105,961	108,989	112,017	115,044	118,072
GS-13	108,001	111,601	115,201	118,801	122,402	126,002	129,602	133,202	136,802	140,403
GS-14	127,624	131,879	136,134	140,388	144,643	148,898	153,153	157,407	161,662	165,917
GS-15	150,119	155,123	160,127	165,132	170,136	175,140	180,144	185,148	190,153	195,157

Annual rate divided by 2,087 hours (5 U.S.C. 5504(b)), as in OPM’s hourly table.
Grade	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
GS-1	12.85	13.28	13.71	14.14	14.56	14.81	15.24	15.66	15.68	16.08
GS-2	14.45	14.80	15.28	15.68	15.86	16.32	16.79	17.25	17.72	18.19
GS-3	15.77	16.30	16.82	17.35	17.87	18.40	18.93	19.45	19.98	20.50
GS-4	17.70	18.29	18.88	19.47	20.06	20.65	21.24	21.83	22.42	23.01
GS-5	19.81	20.47	21.13	21.79	22.45	23.11	23.77	24.43	25.09	25.75
GS-6	22.08	22.81	23.55	24.29	25.02	25.76	26.49	27.23	27.97	28.70
GS-7	24.53	25.35	26.17	26.99	27.80	28.62	29.44	30.26	31.08	31.89
GS-8	27.17	28.08	28.98	29.89	30.79	31.70	32.60	33.51	34.41	35.32
GS-9	30.01	31.01	32.01	33.01	34.01	35.01	36.01	37.01	38.01	39.01
GS-10	33.05	34.15	35.25	36.35	37.45	38.55	39.65	40.76	41.86	42.96
GS-11	36.31	37.52	38.73	39.94	41.15	42.36	43.57	44.78	45.99	47.20
GS-12	43.52	44.97	46.42	47.87	49.32	50.77	52.22	53.67	55.12	56.57
GS-13	51.75	53.47	55.20	56.92	58.65	60.37	62.10	63.82	65.55	67.28
GS-14	61.15	63.19	65.23	67.27	69.31	71.35	73.38	75.42	77.46	79.50
GS-15	71.93	74.33	76.73	79.12	81.52	83.92	86.32	88.71	91.11	93.51

Hourly rate times 80 (5 U.S.C. 5504(b)).
Grade	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
GS-1	1,028.00	1,062.40	1,096.80	1,131.20	1,164.80	1,184.80	1,219.20	1,252.80	1,254.40	1,286.40
GS-2	1,156.00	1,184.00	1,222.40	1,254.40	1,268.80	1,305.60	1,343.20	1,380.00	1,417.60	1,455.20
GS-3	1,261.60	1,304.00	1,345.60	1,388.00	1,429.60	1,472.00	1,514.40	1,556.00	1,598.40	1,640.00
GS-4	1,416.00	1,463.20	1,510.40	1,557.60	1,604.80	1,652.00	1,699.20	1,746.40	1,793.60	1,840.80
GS-5	1,584.80	1,637.60	1,690.40	1,743.20	1,796.00	1,848.80	1,901.60	1,954.40	2,007.20	2,060.00
GS-6	1,766.40	1,824.80	1,884.00	1,943.20	2,001.60	2,060.80	2,119.20	2,178.40	2,237.60	2,296.00
GS-7	1,962.40	2,028.00	2,093.60	2,159.20	2,224.00	2,289.60	2,355.20	2,420.80	2,486.40	2,551.20
GS-8	2,173.60	2,246.40	2,318.40	2,391.20	2,463.20	2,536.00	2,608.00	2,680.80	2,752.80	2,825.60
GS-9	2,400.80	2,480.80	2,560.80	2,640.80	2,720.80	2,800.80	2,880.80	2,960.80	3,040.80	3,120.80
GS-10	2,644.00	2,732.00	2,820.00	2,908.00	2,996.00	3,084.00	3,172.00	3,260.80	3,348.80	3,436.80
GS-11	2,904.80	3,001.60	3,098.40	3,195.20	3,292.00	3,388.80	3,485.60	3,582.40	3,679.20	3,776.00
GS-12	3,481.60	3,597.60	3,713.60	3,829.60	3,945.60	4,061.60	4,177.60	4,293.60	4,409.60	4,525.60
GS-13	4,140.00	4,277.60	4,416.00	4,553.60	4,692.00	4,829.60	4,968.00	5,105.60	5,244.00	5,382.40
GS-14	4,892.00	5,055.20	5,218.40	5,381.60	5,544.80	5,708.00	5,870.40	6,033.60	6,196.80	6,360.00
GS-15	5,754.40	5,946.40	6,138.40	6,329.60	6,521.60	6,713.60	6,905.60	7,096.80	7,288.80	7,480.80

Source: OPM 2026 General Schedule salary table for this area, Salary Table 2026-SO, matched cell by cell; compare with Rest of U.S..

After local prices

Its neighbors by what it buys (how; all 57).
#	Locality	On paper	Price level	What it buys
21	Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI	$106,088	96.9	$109,440
22	St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL	$104,017	95.1	$109,390
23	Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$111,781	102.6	$108,997
24	San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, TX	$102,934	94.7	$108,676
25	Richmond, VA	$105,967	97.9	$108,286
26	Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC	$105,932	98.2	$107,921
27	Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Las Vegas, NM	$102,544	95.5	$107,324

BEA price levels, 2024, for the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro area (how to read this table).
Kind of spending	Here	U.S.	Rank of 57
Goods	93.8	99.6	#48 (tied)
Housing (rent)	94.6	100.6	#37
Utilities	82.2	98.4	#51
Other services	96.2	100.1	#49 (tied)
All items	94.7	100.0	#46 (tied)

Locality pay since 2016

Dashed: the Rest of U.S. rate.

Percent, from OPM’s tables for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026. Grey: the Rest of U.S. rate its counties were paid before it had a table of its own. Sources and caveats; every area since 2016: ten years of locality pay.
Locality pay, %	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
San Antonio, TX	14.35	15.06	15.37	16.07	16.77	16.77	17.39	18.00	18.49	18.78	18.78
Rest of U.S.	14.35	15.06	15.37	15.67	15.95	15.95	16.20	16.50	16.82	17.06	17.06

San Antonio, TX got a locality pay table of its own in 2019; the grey figures before that are the Rest of U.S. rate its counties were paid.

The 1990 pay law’s formula

The editions checked here, the memos for pay in 2018 to 2026. Formula rate “—”: the memos print none for a Rest of U.S. research area, whose gap is from the memo’s research-area table. Sources: memo of January 10, 2025, Attachment 1, and the council’s earlier memos; the President’s Pay Agent on 2026; what these estimates are and are not; every area against the formula: how far pay is from the 1990 law.
Edition, for pay in	Data as of	Listed as	Pay gap, %	Formula rate, %	Rate paid that year, %
2026	March 2024	Locality pay area	41.20	34.48	18.78
2025	March 2023	Locality pay area	42.29	35.51	18.78
2024	March 2022	Locality pay area	42.55	35.76	18.49
2023	March 2021	Locality pay area	42.40	35.62	18.00
2022	March 2020	Locality pay area	42.31	35.53	17.39
2021	March 2019	Locality pay area	47.03	40.03	16.77
2020	March 2018	Locality pay area	53.16	45.87	16.77
2019	March 2017	Locality pay area	55.24	47.85	16.07
2018	March 2016	Rest of U.S. research area	53.99	—	15.37

Since the edition for pay in 2018, the first checked here, the estimate for San Antonio, TX has fallen 12.79 points, from 53.99% to 41.20%, the fifth-biggest fall of the 56 areas with a gap in all nine editions.

San Antonio, TX is a separate locality pay area in the memos from the edition for pay in 2019; before that, in the edition for pay in 2018, it is a Rest of U.S. research area, with a gap of 53.99%.

Federal jobs

In this area’s 14 counties, Postal Service in, military out; BLS, 2023, 2024, 2025. BLS has another 13,060 federal jobs in Texas with no county; the states page counts them with the state, not with any area. Sources and caveats; every area: where the federal jobs are.
Year	Federal civilian jobs	Share of all jobs, %	Average pay per job
2023	38,440	3.33	$89,207
2024	39,266	3.36	$93,279
2025	38,799	3.30	$93,858

Bexar County, Texas, alone holds 95.3% of them, 36,959 jobs, the second-largest share for one county of the 56 areas with more than one.

Counties

14 counties paid at this rate

Texas, 14 counties

Atascosa County
Bandera County
Bexar County
Comal County
Frio County
Gillespie County (added 2024)
Gonzales County (added 2024)
Guadalupe County
Karnes County (added 2024)
Kendall County
Kerr County (added 2024)
McMullen County (added 2024)
Medina County
Wilson County

Source: OPM 2026 locality pay area definitions.