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Albany-Schenectady, NY-MA$104,658a year$4,012.00Every two weeks$50.15Per hour$50.40Overtime hour#34On paper#42After prices
  1. GS pay scale 2026
  2. Albany-Schenectady, NY-MA

58 locality pay areasPage last changed 2026-10-07

Albany, NY GS pay scale 2026: 20.77% locality pay

In 2026 the Albany-Schenectady, NY-MA locality pay area adds 20.77% to the General Schedule base table: a GS-12 step 5 earns $104,658, and the 150 rates run from $27,275 to $197,200, the statutory ceiling.

GS-12 step 5, assembled

Base rate
$86,659
Locality pay, 20.77%
+ $17,999
Annual rate
$104,658

$4,012.00 every two weeks, $50.15 an hour, $50.40 an overtime hour.

#34 on paper, #42 after prices

−8Places lost, of 57 areas with a price index.

Buys at U.S. prices

$105,114Price level 99.6, U.S. = 100, for Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY.

Ceiling watch

1 of 150GS-15 step 10 is held to $197,200.

Key facts

Rank on paper, GS-12 step 5
#34 of 57
Rank after local prices
#42 of 57
Locality pay change since 2016
+6.28 points
Rank of that change
#14 of 58
Pay gap, latest council estimate
53.50%
Rate the 1990 formula would set
46.19%
Federal civilian jobs, 2025
7,766
Share of all jobs here
1.22%
Largest county by federal jobs
Albany County, NY: 5,283
Sources and methods

Every 2026 rate in Albany-Schenectady, NY-MA

Every 2026 rate in Albany-Schenectady, NY-MA, U.S. dollars a year, by grade and step. Click any cell, or use the arrow keys, and the bar at the top of the page moves onto it; ◀ marks GS-12 step 5. ▲ marks the one cell cut to the $197,200 statutory ceiling.
Grade12345678910
GS-127,27528,18929,09629,99930,90431,43432,33133,23533,27234,115
GS-230,66731,39732,41333,27233,64434,63335,62236,61137,60138,590
GS-333,46334,57935,69536,81137,92739,04340,15841,27442,39043,506
GS-437,56338,81540,06841,32042,57343,82545,07746,33047,58248,835
GS-542,02743,42844,82946,23047,63049,03150,43251,83353,23454,635
GS-646,84848,40949,97151,53353,09454,65656,21757,77959,34060,902
GS-752,05953,79555,53057,26659,00160,73662,47264,20765,94367,678
GS-857,65359,57561,49663,41865,33967,26069,18271,10373,02574,946
GS-963,67865,80267,92570,04872,17174,29476,41778,54080,66382,787
GS-1070,12472,46174,79877,13579,47181,80884,14586,48288,81991,156
GS-1177,04579,61482,18384,75287,32089,88992,45895,02797,595100,164
GS-1292,34495,42398,501101,580104,658107,737110,815113,893116,972120,050
GS-13109,810113,471117,131120,792124,452128,113131,773135,434139,094142,755
GS-14129,763134,089138,414142,740147,066151,392155,718160,044164,370168,696
GS-15152,634157,722162,810167,898172,986178,074183,162188,250193,338197,200
Hourly rates in Albany-Schenectady, NY-MA, 2026, U.S. dollars: the annual rate divided by 2,087 hours and rounded to the cent, as 5 U.S.C. 5504(b) sets. OPM prints the same figures in its hourly table for this area.
Grade12345678910
GS-113.0713.5113.9414.3714.8115.0615.4915.9215.9416.35
GS-214.6915.0415.5315.9416.1216.5917.0717.5418.0218.49
GS-316.0316.5717.1017.6418.1718.7119.2419.7820.3120.85
GS-418.0018.6019.2019.8020.4021.0021.6022.2022.8023.40
GS-520.1420.8121.4822.1522.8223.4924.1624.8425.5126.18
GS-622.4523.2023.9424.6925.4426.1926.9427.6928.4329.18
GS-724.9425.7826.6127.4428.2729.1029.9330.7731.6032.43
GS-827.6228.5529.4730.3931.3132.2333.1534.0734.9935.91
GS-930.5131.5332.5533.5634.5835.6036.6237.6338.6539.67
GS-1033.6034.7235.8436.9638.0839.2040.3241.4442.5643.68
GS-1136.9238.1539.3840.6141.8443.0744.3045.5346.7647.99
GS-1244.2545.7247.2048.6750.1551.6253.1054.5756.0557.52
GS-1352.6254.3756.1257.8859.6361.3963.1464.8966.6568.40
GS-1462.1864.2566.3268.3970.4772.5474.6176.6978.7680.83
GS-1573.1475.5778.0180.4582.8985.3387.7690.2092.6494.49
Biweekly rates in Albany-Schenectady, NY-MA, 2026, U.S. dollars: the hourly rate times 80, the hours of one pay period, as 5 U.S.C. 5504(b) sets; the annual rate divided by 26 gives a different, wrong figure.
Grade12345678910
GS-11,045.601,080.801,115.201,149.601,184.801,204.801,239.201,273.601,275.201,308.00
GS-21,175.201,203.201,242.401,275.201,289.601,327.201,365.601,403.201,441.601,479.20
GS-31,282.401,325.601,368.001,411.201,453.601,496.801,539.201,582.401,624.801,668.00
GS-41,440.001,488.001,536.001,584.001,632.001,680.001,728.001,776.001,824.001,872.00
GS-51,611.201,664.801,718.401,772.001,825.601,879.201,932.801,987.202,040.802,094.40
GS-61,796.001,856.001,915.201,975.202,035.202,095.202,155.202,215.202,274.402,334.40
GS-71,995.202,062.402,128.802,195.202,261.602,328.002,394.402,461.602,528.002,594.40
GS-82,209.602,284.002,357.602,431.202,504.802,578.402,652.002,725.602,799.202,872.80
GS-92,440.802,522.402,604.002,684.802,766.402,848.002,929.603,010.403,092.003,173.60
GS-102,688.002,777.602,867.202,956.803,046.403,136.003,225.603,315.203,404.803,494.40
GS-112,953.603,052.003,150.403,248.803,347.203,445.603,544.003,642.403,740.803,839.20
GS-123,540.003,657.603,776.003,893.604,012.004,129.604,248.004,365.604,484.004,601.60
GS-134,209.604,349.604,489.604,630.404,770.404,911.205,051.205,191.205,332.005,472.00
GS-144,974.405,140.005,305.605,471.205,637.605,803.205,968.806,135.206,300.806,466.40
GS-155,851.206,045.606,240.806,436.006,631.206,826.407,020.807,216.007,411.207,559.20
Source: OPM 2026 General Schedule salary table for this area, Salary Table 2026-AL, matched cell by cell.

Under the 2027 proposal this area keeps 20.77% and GS-12 step 5 keeps $104,658 (2027 pay raise; compare with Rest of U.S.).

Locality pay in Albany, NY since 2016

0%25%50%20162026
Solid line: this area; dashed line: the Rest of U.S. rate.
Locality pay, percent, as printed in OPM’s General Schedule table for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026. Sources and caveats.
Locality pay, %20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Albany, NY14.4915.8516.5017.1917.8817.8818.6819.4520.2520.7720.77
Rest of U.S.14.3515.0615.3715.6715.9515.9516.2016.5016.8217.0617.06

Albany, NY has had a locality pay table of its own only since 2016; before that its counties were paid the Rest of U.S. rate.

Among the 46 areas with a table of their own since 2016, it has climbed from 39th to 34th by locality percentage, the second-biggest climb of them, shared with Charlotte, NC and Richmond, VA.

What the 1990 pay law’s formula would pay in Albany, NY

Federal Salary Council estimates for Albany, NY in the editions checked here, the memos for pay in 2018 to 2026: the pay gap between non-federal and General Schedule base pay, and the locality rate the 1990 law’s formula would set. Sources: memo of January 10, 2025, Attachment 1, and the council’s earlier memos; the President’s Pay Agent on 2026; what these estimates are and are not.
Edition, for pay inData as ofListed asPay gap, %Formula rate, %Rate paid that year, %
2026March 2024Locality pay area53.5046.1920.77
2025March 2023Locality pay area57.7950.2820.77
2024March 2022Locality pay area56.0348.6020.25
2023March 2021Locality pay area48.8541.7619.45
2022March 2020Locality pay area49.4842.3618.68
2021March 2019Locality pay area52.2645.0117.88
2020March 2018Locality pay area53.9846.6517.88
2019March 2017Locality pay area55.8548.4317.19
2018March 2016Locality pay area53.6846.3616.50

What a GS-12 step 5 buys after local prices

The areas ranked next to Albany, NY by what a GS-12 step 5 buys: the 2026 salary divided by the BEA price level for 2024, where 100 is the U.S. average. How the comparison is made; all 57 ranked.
#LocalityOn paperPrice levelWhat it buys
39Sacramento-Roseville, CA-NV$112,449106.7$105,418
40Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY$102,15497.0$105,275
41Virginia Beach-Norfolk, VA-NC$102,95197.9$105,115
42Albany-Schenectady, NY-MA$104,65899.6$105,114
43Harrisburg-Lebanon, PA$103,49798.7$104,913
44Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA$118,264113.6$104,137
45Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA$109,303105.4$103,682

Federal jobs in Albany, NY

Federal civilian jobs at worksites in the 13 counties of this area, every federal pay system counted (the Postal Service in, the uniformed military out), as annual averages from the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2023, 2024, 2025. BLS reports another 4,580 federal jobs in Massachusetts and New York without a county; they belong to no area. Sources and caveats.
YearFederal civilian jobsShare of all jobs, %Average pay per job
20237,8351.26$84,943
20248,0041.27$87,192
20257,7661.22$91,202

Counties in Albany-Schenectady, NY-MA

13 counties paid at this rate

Massachusetts, 1 county

  • Berkshire County

New York, 12 counties

  • Albany County
  • Columbia County
  • Fulton County
  • Greene County (added 2024)
  • Hamilton County (added 2024)
  • Montgomery County
  • Rensselaer County
  • Saratoga County
  • Schenectady County
  • Schoharie County
  • Warren County
  • Washington County
Source: OPM 2026 locality pay area definitions. The duty station’s county counts (how that works).