There are a total of 53 General Schedule Locality Areas, which were established by the GSA's Office of Personnel Management to allow the General Schedule Payscale (and the LEO Payscale, which also uses these localities) to be adjusted for the varying cost-of-living across different parts of the United States.

The OPM General Schedule Locality Pay Interactive Map has been updated to include 2025 locality pay rates! Enjoy! No new counties were added for calendar year 2025, and no new locality pay areas were established.

2024 General Schedule (GS) Pay Tables. For more information about the structure of the XML files available below, please see the Data Dictionary

The WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE-ARLINGTON, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA GS Locality is one of 53 GS Locality Areas used to determine local cost-of-living pay adjustments for federal government employees. The 2025 Locality Pay Adjustment for this locality is 33.94%, which means that GS employees in this area are paid 33.94% more then the GS Base Pay Table.

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Use the map or drop-down below to view Locality-adjusted GS pay tables, or use our GS Pay Calculator to calculate your pay. This table shows the base pay amounts for all General Schedule employees based on the 2025 GS Pay Scale, as published by …

GS-13 government employees will receive a base salary of between $90,025.00 and $117,034.00, depending on their General Schedule Step. The educational and experience requirements for most GS-13 government jobs are:

2025 GS Pay Raise: This year, the General Schedule base payscale received a 1.7% across-the-board pay raise. A GS-13 Step 3 federal employee would receive an effective raise of $1,605.00 in 2025, from $94,422.00 per year (based on the 2024 GS base table ) to $96,027.00 per year.

As of 2025, there are a total of 58 localities defined by the OPM. Some of these localities comprise of a single city, while others include areas spread across multiple states. For federal employees who work in an area not within one of the 57 specific locality pay areas, the catch-all pay locality Rest of United States applies.

SALARY TABLE 2021-GS. INCORPORATING THE 1% GENERAL SCHEDULE INCREASE. EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2021. Annual Rates by Grade and Step