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.

How the pages are written

Every figure on this site is computed by an automated build from published government data, and every one of them is checked against the source before the site goes out. The writing around the figures is reviewed before publication. Where a number rests on an approximation rather than a published value — the price level of a locality is the clearest case — the page says so on the page, not in a footnote.

Author credit belongs to BiLingoPlus LLC, the publisher. There are no invented expert personas here and no bylines: nothing on this site is an opinion that would need one. What can be checked instead is the method, and it is set out in full on the methodology page — the four sources, the order of the arithmetic as the statute sets it, and the checks that stop publication when they fail.

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.