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Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK$110,282a year$4,227.20Every two weeks$52.84Per hour$53.12Overtime hour#17On paper#30After prices
  1. GS pay scale 2026
  2. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK

58 locality pay areasPage last changed 2026-10-07

Dallas & Fort Worth GS pay scale 2026: 27.26% locality pay

In 2026 the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK locality pay area adds 27.26% to the General Schedule base table: a GS-12 step 5 earns $110,282, and the 150 rates run from $28,740 to $197,200, the statutory ceiling.

GS-12 step 5, assembled

Base rate
$86,659
Locality pay, 27.26%
+ $23,623
Annual rate
$110,282

$4,227.20 every two weeks, $52.84 an hour, $53.12 an overtime hour.

#17 on paper, #30 after prices

−13Places lost, of 57 areas with a price index.

Buys at U.S. prices

$106,976Price level 103.1, U.S. = 100, for Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX.

Ceiling watch

3 of 150cells held to $197,200, from GS-15 step 8.

Key facts

Rank on paper, GS-12 step 5
#17 of 57
Rank after local prices
#30 of 57
Locality pay change since 2016
+6.22 points
Rank of that change
#15 of 58
Pay gap, latest council estimate
50.79%
Rate the 1990 formula would set
43.61%
Federal civilian jobs, 2025
50,414
Share of all jobs here
1.18%
Largest county by federal jobs
Dallas County, TX: 25,450
Sources and methods

Every 2026 rate in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK

Every 2026 rate in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK, 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 3 cells cut to the $197,200 statutory ceiling.
Grade12345678910
GS-128,74029,70430,65931,61132,56533,12334,06935,02135,06035,948
GS-232,31533,08434,15535,06035,45236,49437,53738,57939,62140,663
GS-335,26136,43737,61338,78939,96541,14142,31643,49244,66845,844
GS-439,58240,90142,22143,54144,86046,18047,50048,81950,13951,459
GS-544,28545,76147,23848,71450,19051,66653,14354,61956,09557,571
GS-649,36551,01152,65654,30255,94757,59359,23860,88462,52964,175
GS-754,85756,68558,51460,34362,17264,00065,82967,65869,48771,315
GS-860,75162,77664,80166,82568,85070,87572,90074,92476,94978,974
GS-967,10069,33871,57573,81276,04978,28780,52482,76184,99887,235
GS-1073,89276,35578,81781,28083,74286,20588,66791,13093,59296,055
GS-1181,18683,89286,59989,30692,01394,72097,426100,133102,840105,547
GS-1297,307100,551103,795107,038110,282113,526116,770120,014123,258126,502
GS-13115,711119,568123,426127,283131,140134,997138,855142,712146,569150,426
GS-14136,736141,294145,853150,411154,970159,528164,086168,645173,203177,762
GS-15160,836166,198171,559176,921182,282187,644193,005197,200197,200197,200
Hourly rates in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK, 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-113.7714.2314.6915.1515.6015.8716.3216.7816.8017.22
GS-215.4815.8516.3716.8016.9917.4917.9918.4918.9819.48
GS-316.9017.4618.0218.5919.1519.7120.2820.8421.4021.97
GS-418.9719.6020.2320.8621.4922.1322.7623.3924.0224.66
GS-521.2221.9322.6323.3424.0524.7625.4626.1726.8827.59
GS-623.6524.4425.2326.0226.8127.6028.3829.1729.9630.75
GS-726.2927.1628.0428.9129.7930.6731.5432.4233.3034.17
GS-829.1130.0831.0532.0232.9933.9634.9335.9036.8737.84
GS-932.1533.2234.3035.3736.4437.5138.5839.6640.7341.80
GS-1035.4136.5937.7738.9540.1341.3142.4943.6744.8546.03
GS-1138.9040.2041.4942.7944.0945.3946.6847.9849.2850.57
GS-1246.6348.1849.7351.2952.8454.4055.9557.5159.0660.61
GS-1355.4457.2959.1460.9962.8464.6866.5368.3870.2372.08
GS-1465.5267.7069.8972.0774.2576.4478.6280.8182.9985.18
GS-1577.0779.6382.2084.7787.3489.9192.4894.4994.4994.49
Biweekly rates in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK, 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-11,101.601,138.401,175.201,212.001,248.001,269.601,305.601,342.401,344.001,377.60
GS-21,238.401,268.001,309.601,344.001,359.201,399.201,439.201,479.201,518.401,558.40
GS-31,352.001,396.801,441.601,487.201,532.001,576.801,622.401,667.201,712.001,757.60
GS-41,517.601,568.001,618.401,668.801,719.201,770.401,820.801,871.201,921.601,972.80
GS-51,697.601,754.401,810.401,867.201,924.001,980.802,036.802,093.602,150.402,207.20
GS-61,892.001,955.202,018.402,081.602,144.802,208.002,270.402,333.602,396.802,460.00
GS-72,103.202,172.802,243.202,312.802,383.202,453.602,523.202,593.602,664.002,733.60
GS-82,328.802,406.402,484.002,561.602,639.202,716.802,794.402,872.002,949.603,027.20
GS-92,572.002,657.602,744.002,829.602,915.203,000.803,086.403,172.803,258.403,344.00
GS-102,832.802,927.203,021.603,116.003,210.403,304.803,399.203,493.603,588.003,682.40
GS-113,112.003,216.003,319.203,423.203,527.203,631.203,734.403,838.403,942.404,045.60
GS-123,730.403,854.403,978.404,103.204,227.204,352.004,476.004,600.804,724.804,848.80
GS-134,435.204,583.204,731.204,879.205,027.205,174.405,322.405,470.405,618.405,766.40
GS-145,241.605,416.005,591.205,765.605,940.006,115.206,289.606,464.806,639.206,814.40
GS-156,165.606,370.406,576.006,781.606,987.207,192.807,398.407,559.207,559.207,559.20
Source: OPM 2026 General Schedule salary table for this area, Salary Table 2026-DFW, matched cell by cell.

Under the 2027 proposal this area keeps 27.26% and GS-12 step 5 keeps $110,282 (2027 pay raise; compare with Rest of U.S.).

Locality pay in Dallas, TX 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
Dallas, TX21.0422.6123.4024.2124.9824.9825.6826.3726.9127.2627.26
Rest of U.S.14.3515.0615.3715.6715.9515.9516.2016.5016.8217.0617.06

What the 1990 pay law’s formula would pay in Dallas, TX

Federal Salary Council estimates for Dallas, TX 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 area50.7943.6127.26
2025March 2023Locality pay area54.7447.3727.26
2024March 2022Locality pay area53.3246.0226.91
2023March 2021Locality pay area53.5946.2826.37
2022March 2020Locality pay area53.6246.3025.68
2021March 2019Locality pay area57.7050.1924.98
2020March 2018Locality pay area64.9257.0724.98
2019March 2017Locality pay area68.9460.9024.21
2018March 2016Locality pay area67.3359.3623.40

Since the edition for pay in 2018, the first checked here, the estimate for Dallas, TX has fallen 16.54 points, from 67.33% to 50.79%, the fourth-biggest fall of the 56 areas with a gap in all nine editions.

What a GS-12 step 5 buys after local prices

The areas ranked next to Dallas, TX 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
27Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Las Vegas, NM$102,54495.5$107,324
28Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL$107,275100.1$107,213
29Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie, IN$102,38895.7$106,993
30Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK$110,282103.1$106,976
31Denver-Aurora, CO$113,107105.8$106,925
32Tucson-Nogales, AZ$103,36796.9$106,678
33Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA$116,071108.9$106,601

Federal jobs in Dallas, TX

Federal civilian jobs at worksites in the 29 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 13,590 federal jobs in Oklahoma and Texas without a county; they belong to no area. Sources and caveats.
YearFederal civilian jobsShare of all jobs, %Average pay per job
202349,9821.19$97,193
202450,5861.19$102,511
202550,4141.18$105,437

Federal jobs here fell from 2024 to 2025, 172 fewer than in 2024, down 0.34%, the second-smallest drop of the 55 areas where they fell, and the 2025 average still counts staff on paid administrative leave until 30 September.

Counties in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK

29 counties paid at this rate

Oklahoma, 3 counties

  • Bryan County
  • Carter County (added 2024)
  • Love County (added 2024)

Texas, 26 counties

  • Collin County
  • Cooke County
  • Dallas County
  • Delta County
  • Denton County
  • Ellis County
  • Fannin County
  • Grayson County
  • Henderson County
  • Hill County (added 2024)
  • Hood County
  • Hopkins County
  • Hunt County
  • Jack County (added 2024)
  • Johnson County
  • Kaufman County
  • Montague County (added 2024)
  • Navarro County
  • Palo Pinto County
  • Parker County
  • Rains County (added 2024)
  • Rockwall County
  • Somervell County
  • Tarrant County
  • Van Zandt County (added 2024)
  • Wise County
Source: OPM 2026 locality pay area definitions. The duty station’s county counts (how that works).