GS pay scale 2026
Las Vegas-Henderson, NV-AZ

58 locality pay areasPage last changed 2026-10-07

Las Vegas, NV GS pay scale 2026: 19.57% locality pay

In 2026 the Las Vegas-Henderson, NV-AZ locality pay area adds 19.57% to the General Schedule base table: a GS-12 step 5 earns $103,618, and the 150 rates run from $27,004 to $196,455.

GS-12 step 5, assembled

Base rate: $86,659
Locality pay, 19.57%: + $16,959
Annual rate: $103,618

$3,972.00 every two weeks, $49.65 an hour, $49.91 an overtime hour.

#39 on paper, #47 after prices

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

Buys at U.S. prices

$103,396Price level 100.2, U.S. = 100, for Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV.

Ceiling watch

ClearNo cell reaches $197,200.

Key facts

Rank on paper, GS-12 step 5: #39 of 57
Rank after local prices: #47 of 57
Locality pay change since 2016: +5.02 points
Rank of that change: #30 of 58
Pay gap, latest council estimate: 42.00%
Rate the 1990 formula would set: 35.24%
Federal civilian jobs, 2025: 15,387
Share of all jobs here: 1.27%
Largest county by federal jobs: Clark County, NV: 14,733

Sources and methods

Every 2026 rate in Las Vegas-Henderson, NV-AZ

A yearAn hourEvery two weeks

Every 2026 rate in Las Vegas-Henderson, NV-AZ, 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. No cell here reaches the $197,200 statutory ceiling.
Grade	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
GS-1	27,004	27,909	28,807	29,701	30,597	31,122	32,010	32,904	32,942	33,776
GS-2	30,362	31,085	32,091	32,942	33,310	34,289	35,268	36,248	37,227	38,206
GS-3	33,130	34,235	35,340	36,445	37,550	38,655	39,759	40,864	41,969	43,074
GS-4	37,190	38,430	39,670	40,910	42,150	43,390	44,630	45,869	47,109	48,349
GS-5	41,609	42,996	44,383	45,770	47,157	48,544	49,931	51,318	52,705	54,092
GS-6	46,382	47,928	49,474	51,021	52,567	54,113	55,659	57,205	58,751	60,297
GS-7	51,542	53,260	54,978	56,697	58,415	60,133	61,851	63,569	65,288	67,006
GS-8	57,080	58,983	60,885	62,787	64,690	66,592	68,494	70,397	72,299	74,202
GS-9	63,046	65,148	67,250	69,352	71,454	73,556	75,658	77,760	79,862	81,964
GS-10	69,427	71,741	74,054	76,368	78,682	80,996	83,309	85,623	87,937	90,250
GS-11	76,280	78,823	81,366	83,909	86,453	88,996	91,539	94,082	96,626	99,169
GS-12	91,427	94,475	97,522	100,570	103,618	106,666	109,714	112,762	115,810	118,857
GS-13	108,719	112,343	115,967	119,592	123,216	126,840	130,464	134,088	137,712	141,337
GS-14	128,473	132,756	137,039	141,322	145,605	149,888	154,171	158,454	162,737	167,020
GS-15	151,117	156,155	161,192	166,230	171,267	176,305	181,342	186,380	191,417	196,455

Hourly rates in Las Vegas-Henderson, NV-AZ, 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.
Grade	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
GS-1	12.94	13.37	13.80	14.23	14.66	14.91	15.34	15.77	15.78	16.18
GS-2	14.55	14.89	15.38	15.78	15.96	16.43	16.90	17.37	17.84	18.31
GS-3	15.87	16.40	16.93	17.46	17.99	18.52	19.05	19.58	20.11	20.64
GS-4	17.82	18.41	19.01	19.60	20.20	20.79	21.38	21.98	22.57	23.17
GS-5	19.94	20.60	21.27	21.93	22.60	23.26	23.92	24.59	25.25	25.92
GS-6	22.22	22.97	23.71	24.45	25.19	25.93	26.67	27.41	28.15	28.89
GS-7	24.70	25.52	26.34	27.17	27.99	28.81	29.64	30.46	31.28	32.11
GS-8	27.35	28.26	29.17	30.08	31.00	31.91	32.82	33.73	34.64	35.55
GS-9	30.21	31.22	32.22	33.23	34.24	35.24	36.25	37.26	38.27	39.27
GS-10	33.27	34.38	35.48	36.59	37.70	38.81	39.92	41.03	42.14	43.24
GS-11	36.55	37.77	38.99	40.21	41.42	42.64	43.86	45.08	46.30	47.52
GS-12	43.81	45.27	46.73	48.19	49.65	51.11	52.57	54.03	55.49	56.95
GS-13	52.09	53.83	55.57	57.30	59.04	60.78	62.51	64.25	65.99	67.72
GS-14	61.56	63.61	65.66	67.72	69.77	71.82	73.87	75.92	77.98	80.03
GS-15	72.41	74.82	77.24	79.65	82.06	84.48	86.89	89.31	91.72	94.13

Biweekly rates in Las Vegas-Henderson, NV-AZ, 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.
Grade	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
GS-1	1,035.20	1,069.60	1,104.00	1,138.40	1,172.80	1,192.80	1,227.20	1,261.60	1,262.40	1,294.40
GS-2	1,164.00	1,191.20	1,230.40	1,262.40	1,276.80	1,314.40	1,352.00	1,389.60	1,427.20	1,464.80
GS-3	1,269.60	1,312.00	1,354.40	1,396.80	1,439.20	1,481.60	1,524.00	1,566.40	1,608.80	1,651.20
GS-4	1,425.60	1,472.80	1,520.80	1,568.00	1,616.00	1,663.20	1,710.40	1,758.40	1,805.60	1,853.60
GS-5	1,595.20	1,648.00	1,701.60	1,754.40	1,808.00	1,860.80	1,913.60	1,967.20	2,020.00	2,073.60
GS-6	1,777.60	1,837.60	1,896.80	1,956.00	2,015.20	2,074.40	2,133.60	2,192.80	2,252.00	2,311.20
GS-7	1,976.00	2,041.60	2,107.20	2,173.60	2,239.20	2,304.80	2,371.20	2,436.80	2,502.40	2,568.80
GS-8	2,188.00	2,260.80	2,333.60	2,406.40	2,480.00	2,552.80	2,625.60	2,698.40	2,771.20	2,844.00
GS-9	2,416.80	2,497.60	2,577.60	2,658.40	2,739.20	2,819.20	2,900.00	2,980.80	3,061.60	3,141.60
GS-10	2,661.60	2,750.40	2,838.40	2,927.20	3,016.00	3,104.80	3,193.60	3,282.40	3,371.20	3,459.20
GS-11	2,924.00	3,021.60	3,119.20	3,216.80	3,313.60	3,411.20	3,508.80	3,606.40	3,704.00	3,801.60
GS-12	3,504.80	3,621.60	3,738.40	3,855.20	3,972.00	4,088.80	4,205.60	4,322.40	4,439.20	4,556.00
GS-13	4,167.20	4,306.40	4,445.60	4,584.00	4,723.20	4,862.40	5,000.80	5,140.00	5,279.20	5,417.60
GS-14	4,924.80	5,088.80	5,252.80	5,417.60	5,581.60	5,745.60	5,909.60	6,073.60	6,238.40	6,402.40
GS-15	5,792.80	5,985.60	6,179.20	6,372.00	6,564.80	6,758.40	6,951.20	7,144.80	7,337.60	7,530.40

Source: OPM 2026 General Schedule salary table for this area, Salary Table 2026-LV, matched cell by cell.

No cell here reaches the $197,200 ceiling, but GS-15 step 10, at $196,455, is $745 short of it, the second-closest of the 21 areas whose rates all stay below it.

Under the 2027 proposal this area keeps 19.57% and GS-12 step 5 keeps $103,618 (2027 pay raise; compare with Rest of U.S.).

Locality pay in Las Vegas, NV since 2016

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, %	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
Las Vegas, NV	14.55	15.93	16.49	17.04	17.68	17.68	18.25	18.76	19.23	19.57	19.57
Rest of U.S.	14.35	15.06	15.37	15.67	15.95	15.95	16.20	16.50	16.82	17.06	17.06

Las Vegas, NV 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 slipped from 35th to 39th by locality percentage, the fifth-biggest slide of them, shared with Hartford, CT and Tucson, AZ.

What the 1990 pay law’s formula would pay in Las Vegas, NV

Federal Salary Council estimates for Las Vegas, NV 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 in	Data as of	Listed as	Pay gap, %	Formula rate, %	Rate paid that year, %
2026	March 2024	Locality pay area	42.00	35.24	19.57
2025	March 2023	Locality pay area	46.06	39.10	19.57
2024	March 2022	Locality pay area	42.55	35.76	19.23
2023	March 2021	Locality pay area	40.33	33.65	18.76
2022	March 2020	Locality pay area	41.87	35.11	18.25
2021	March 2019	Locality pay area	48.19	41.13	17.68
2020	March 2018	Locality pay area	51.50	44.29	17.68
2019	March 2017	Locality pay area	48.95	41.86	17.04
2018	March 2016	Locality pay area	49.04	41.94	16.49

What a GS-12 step 5 buys after local prices

The areas ranked next to Las Vegas, NV 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.
#	Locality	On paper	Price level	What it buys
44	Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA	$118,264	113.6	$104,137
45	Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA	$109,303	105.4	$103,682
46	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$115,880	111.9	$103,569
47	Las Vegas-Henderson, NV-AZ	$103,618	100.2	$103,396
48	Colorado Springs, CO	$104,121	100.7	$103,390
49	Phoenix-Mesa, AZ	$106,114	103.3	$102,708
50	Seattle-Tacoma, WA	$114,017	111.1	$102,595

Federal jobs in Las Vegas, NV

Federal civilian jobs at worksites in the 3 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 3,204 federal jobs in Arizona and Nevada without a county; they belong to no area. Sources and caveats.
Year	Federal civilian jobs	Share of all jobs, %	Average pay per job
2023	15,374	1.32	$86,159
2024	15,715	1.32	$92,031
2025	15,387	1.27	$95,458

Clark County, Nevada, alone holds 95.7% of them, 14,733 jobs, the largest share for one county of the 56 areas with more than one.

Counties in Las Vegas-Henderson, NV-AZ

3 counties paid at this rate

Arizona, 1 county

Mohave County

Nevada, 2 counties

Clark County
Nye County

Source: OPM 2026 locality pay area definitions. The duty station’s county counts (how that works).