The General Schedule (GS) is the predominant pay scale within the United States civil service. The GS includes the majority of white collar personnel (professional, technical, administrative, and clerical) positions.

This table shows the base pay amounts for all General Schedule employees based on the 2025 GS Pay Scale, as published by the Office of Personnel Management. General Schedule base pay tables are revised yearly, effective each January, to reflect inflation and increasing costs of living.

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

General Schedule (GS) base pay varies from the GS-1 level at $21,986 per annum to $159,950 per annum at step 10 of the GS-15 grade, not including locality pay adjustments. The Senior Executive Service salary tops out at $226,300 per annum.

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

The General Schedule (GS) classification and pay system covers the majority of civilian white-collar Federal employees (about 1.5 million worldwide) in professional, technical, administrative, and clerical positions.

The federal government pay scale is laid out in the GS (General Schedule). The GS was designed to keep Federal government salaries on a par for all federal jobs throughout the various Federal agencies. The GS is divided into 15 grades and each grade has 10 levels. There used to be 3 GS "supergrades" GS-16, GS-17 and GS-18.

In fiscal year 2024, the wage ceiling, inclusive of basic pay and locality pay, for most federal personnel is set at $191,900. Conversely, federal pay in 2023 peaked at $183,500. Here’s an overview...

The General Schedule is divided into grades of difficulty and responsibility of work, as follows: (1) Grade GS–1 includes those classes of positions the duties of which are to perform, under immediate supervision, with little or no latitude for the exercise of independent judgment—