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Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI$110,594a year$4,239.20Every two weeks$52.99Per hour$53.27Overtime hour#16On paper#38After prices
  1. GS pay scale 2026
  2. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI

58 locality pay areasPage last changed 2026-10-07

Minneapolis, MN GS pay scale 2026: 27.62% locality pay

In 2026 the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI locality pay area adds 27.62% to the General Schedule base table: a GS-12 step 5 earns $110,594, and the 150 rates run from $28,822 to $197,200, the statutory ceiling.

GS-12 step 5, assembled

Base rate
$86,659
Locality pay, 27.62%
+ $23,935
Annual rate
$110,594

$4,239.20 every two weeks, $52.99 an hour, $53.27 an overtime hour.

#16 on paper, #38 after prices

−22Places lost, of 57 areas with a price index.

Buys at U.S. prices

$105,506Price level 104.8, U.S. = 100, for Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI.

Ceiling watch

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

Key facts

Rank on paper, GS-12 step 5
#16 of 57
Rank after local prices
#38 of 57
Locality pay change since 2016
+6.32 points
Rank of that change
#13 of 58
Pay gap, latest council estimate
57.25%
Rate the 1990 formula would set
49.76%
Federal civilian jobs, 2025
25,802
Share of all jobs here
1.08%
Largest county by federal jobs
Hennepin County, MN: 12,784
Sources and methods

Every 2026 rate in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI

Every 2026 rate in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI, 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-128,82229,78830,74631,70132,65733,21734,16535,12035,15936,050
GS-232,40733,17734,25235,15935,55236,59837,64338,68839,73340,778
GS-335,36136,54037,71938,89940,07841,25742,43643,61544,79545,974
GS-439,69441,01742,34043,66444,98746,31147,63448,95850,28151,604
GS-544,41045,89147,37148,85250,33251,81253,29354,77356,25457,734
GS-649,50551,15552,80554,45556,10657,75659,40661,05662,70664,356
GS-755,01256,84658,68060,51462,34764,18166,01567,84969,68371,517
GS-860,92362,95464,98467,01569,04571,07573,10675,13677,16779,197
GS-967,29069,53471,77774,02176,26478,50880,75282,99585,23987,482
GS-1074,10176,57179,04081,51083,97986,44988,91891,38793,85796,326
GS-1181,41584,13086,84489,55992,27394,98897,702100,417103,131105,845
GS-1297,582100,835104,088107,341110,594113,847117,100120,353123,606126,859
GS-13116,038119,907123,775127,643131,511135,379139,247143,116146,984150,852
GS-14137,123141,694146,265150,837155,408159,979164,551169,122173,693178,265
GS-15161,291166,668172,045177,421182,798188,174193,551197,200197,200197,200
Hourly rates in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI, 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-113.8114.2714.7315.1915.6515.9216.3716.8316.8517.27
GS-215.5315.9016.4116.8517.0317.5418.0418.5419.0419.54
GS-316.9417.5118.0718.6419.2019.7720.3320.9021.4622.03
GS-419.0219.6520.2920.9221.5622.1922.8223.4624.0924.73
GS-521.2821.9922.7023.4124.1224.8325.5426.2426.9527.66
GS-623.7224.5125.3026.0926.8827.6728.4629.2630.0530.84
GS-726.3627.2428.1229.0029.8730.7531.6332.5133.3934.27
GS-829.1930.1631.1432.1133.0834.0635.0336.0036.9837.95
GS-932.2433.3234.3935.4736.5437.6238.6939.7740.8441.92
GS-1035.5136.6937.8739.0640.2441.4242.6143.7944.9746.16
GS-1139.0140.3141.6142.9144.2145.5146.8148.1249.4250.72
GS-1246.7648.3249.8751.4352.9954.5556.1157.6759.2360.79
GS-1355.6057.4559.3161.1663.0164.8766.7268.5770.4372.28
GS-1465.7067.8970.0872.2774.4676.6678.8581.0483.2385.42
GS-1577.2879.8682.4485.0187.5990.1692.7494.4994.4994.49
Biweekly rates in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI, 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-11,104.801,141.601,178.401,215.201,252.001,273.601,309.601,346.401,348.001,381.60
GS-21,242.401,272.001,312.801,348.001,362.401,403.201,443.201,483.201,523.201,563.20
GS-31,355.201,400.801,445.601,491.201,536.001,581.601,626.401,672.001,716.801,762.40
GS-41,521.601,572.001,623.201,673.601,724.801,775.201,825.601,876.801,927.201,978.40
GS-51,702.401,759.201,816.001,872.801,929.601,986.402,043.202,099.202,156.002,212.80
GS-61,897.601,960.802,024.002,087.202,150.402,213.602,276.802,340.802,404.002,467.20
GS-72,108.802,179.202,249.602,320.002,389.602,460.002,530.402,600.802,671.202,741.60
GS-82,335.202,412.802,491.202,568.802,646.402,724.802,802.402,880.002,958.403,036.00
GS-92,579.202,665.602,751.202,837.602,923.203,009.603,095.203,181.603,267.203,353.60
GS-102,840.802,935.203,029.603,124.803,219.203,313.603,408.803,503.203,597.603,692.80
GS-113,120.803,224.803,328.803,432.803,536.803,640.803,744.803,849.603,953.604,057.60
GS-123,740.803,865.603,989.604,114.404,239.204,364.004,488.804,613.604,738.404,863.20
GS-134,448.004,596.004,744.804,892.805,040.805,189.605,337.605,485.605,634.405,782.40
GS-145,256.005,431.205,606.405,781.605,956.806,132.806,308.006,483.206,658.406,833.60
GS-156,182.406,388.806,595.206,800.807,007.207,212.807,419.207,559.207,559.207,559.20
Source: OPM 2026 General Schedule salary table for this area, Salary Table 2026-MSP, matched cell by cell.

Under the 2027 proposal this area keeps 27.62% and GS-12 step 5 keeps $110,594 (2027 pay raise; compare with Rest of U.S.).

Locality pay in Minneapolis, MN 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
Minneapolis, MN21.3022.7223.3724.0024.6624.6625.4926.3927.1527.6227.62
Rest of U.S.14.3515.0615.3715.6715.9515.9516.2016.5016.8217.0617.06

In 2024 OPM added 15 counties in Minnesota and Wisconsin to it, the second-most it added to any area, as many as it added to Indianapolis, IN.

What the 1990 pay law’s formula would pay in Minneapolis, MN

Federal Salary Council estimates for Minneapolis, MN 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 area57.2549.7627.62
2025March 2023Locality pay area62.4354.7027.62
2024March 2022Locality pay area61.7054.0027.15
2023March 2021Locality pay area60.2052.5726.39
2022March 2020Locality pay area57.6850.1725.49
2021March 2019Locality pay area58.5751.0224.66
2020March 2018Locality pay area59.9052.2924.66
2019March 2017Locality pay area60.2452.6124.00
2018March 2016Locality pay area60.7053.0523.37

Across the nine editions checked here, the estimate for Minneapolis, MN has run from 57.25% (for pay in 2026) to 62.43% (for pay in 2025), the fourth-narrowest swing of the 56 areas with a gap in all of them.

What a GS-12 step 5 buys after local prices

The areas ranked next to Minneapolis, MN 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
35Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX$104,29498.1$106,351
36New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA$119,546112.6$106,204
37Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT-ME-VT$114,893108.3$106,121
38Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI$110,594104.8$105,506
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

Federal jobs in Minneapolis, MN

Federal civilian jobs at worksites in the 36 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 4,023 federal jobs in Minnesota and Wisconsin without a county; they belong to no area. Sources and caveats.
YearFederal civilian jobsShare of all jobs, %Average pay per job
202325,9811.10$93,857
202426,3531.10$96,991
202525,8021.08$100,706

Counties in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI

36 counties paid at this rate

Minnesota, 33 counties

  • Anoka County
  • Benton County
  • Blue Earth County (added 2024)
  • Brown County (added 2024)
  • Carver County
  • Chisago County
  • Dakota County
  • Dodge County (added 2024)
  • Fillmore County (added 2024)
  • Goodhue County
  • Hennepin County
  • Isanti County
  • Kanabec County (added 2024)
  • Le Sueur County
  • McLeod County
  • Meeker County (added 2024)
  • Mille Lacs County
  • Morrison County (added 2024)
  • Mower County (added 2024)
  • Nicollet County (added 2024)
  • Olmsted County (added 2024)
  • Pine County (added 2024)
  • Ramsey County
  • Rice County
  • Scott County
  • Sherburne County
  • Sibley County
  • Stearns County
  • Steele County (added 2024)
  • Wabasha County (added 2024)
  • Waseca County (added 2024)
  • Washington County
  • Wright County

Wisconsin, 3 counties

  • Pierce County
  • Polk County (added 2024)
  • St. Croix County
Source: OPM 2026 locality pay area definitions. The duty station’s county counts (how that works).

Its 36 counties are the fourth-most of any area.