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2026 editionEffective January 202658 locality pay areasData last changed 2026-08-25
Contact GS Pay Tables
One address, read by a person. There is no support queue, no ticket number and no chatbot.
Write to us
GS Pay Tables is published by BiLingoPlus LLC, a limited liability company registered in the State of Wyoming. Postal correspondence can be sent through the company’s registered agent; write to the address above and we will provide the details.
We read everything and answer anything that needs an answer. What we do not do is send marketing: there is no mailing list to join and no reason for us to write to you unprompted.
If a number here is wrong
Tell us, and include the page and the figure you think is incorrect.
Every rate on this site is recomputed from the published OPM base table and the locality percentage, in the order the law sets, and checked against the official table cell by cell — all 8,700 of them. So a genuine discrepancy means one of two things: the source has changed, or we have a defect. Both matter, and both get fixed.
Corrections are made on the page itself, and the change moves the "data last changed" date in the footer. We do not quietly edit a figure and leave the date where it was.
What a reference site cannot do
Three things people write to ask, and the honest answer to each.
Which locality pay area am I in? We cannot tell you. Locality follows your official duty station, which is a fact about your paperwork, not about geography — telework arrangements, military installations and county lines all complicate it. Our calculator will find the area a ZIP code sits in, and that is right far more often than not, but the authority is your servicing human resources office.
Should I take this job, or this transfer? We cannot advise you. GS Pay Tables publishes public federal data and arithmetic performed on it. It is not a licensed adviser of any kind, nothing here is advice, and the parts of that decision that matter most are usually not about money at all.
Can you change a rate? No. If a published rate looks wrong to you, the authority is the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, not this site. We report what OPM publishes; where we disagree with our own arithmetic, the build stops.
Press, researchers and data use
The underlying data — OPM salary tables, OPM locality pay area definitions, BEA Regional Price Parities and the Census Bureau ZIP-code-to-county file — are works of the United States government and in the public domain. You need nobody’s permission to use them, and for anything serious you should go to the source rather than to us.
What is ours is the arrangement of this site, its wording, and the purchasing-power comparison that sits at the center of it. If you want to quote or reproduce that, write to the address above. We answer, and the answer is usually yes.