2025 Opm Pay Scale With Locality Increase. The federal salary council (fsc) recently proposed adding about 15,000 federal employees to existing locality pay areas for 2025 from the “rest of the u.s.” being added to a locality pay area usually results in higher pay for impacted employees. The gs pay table incorporates a base pay increase of 1.7% and an additional 0.3% for locality pay.

The locality pay areas for 2024 have been announced. The pay cap for some higher gs grades will be $195,200 in 2025 as limited by the rate for level iv of the executive schedule.