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San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, TX$102,934a year$3,945.60Every two weeks$49.32Per hour$49.58Overtime hour#46On paper#24After prices
  1. GS pay scale 2026
  2. San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, TX

58 locality pay areasPage last changed 2026-10-07

San Antonio, TX GS pay scale 2026: 18.78% locality pay

In 2026 the San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, TX locality pay area adds 18.78% to the General Schedule base table: a GS-12 step 5 earns $102,934, and the 150 rates run from $26,825 to $195,157.

GS-12 step 5, assembled

Base rate
$86,659
Locality pay, 18.78%
+ $16,275
Annual rate
$102,934

$3,945.60 every two weeks, $49.32 an hour, $49.58 an overtime hour.

#46 on paper, #24 after prices

+22Places gained, of 57 areas with a price index.

Buys at U.S. prices

$108,676Price level 94.7, U.S. = 100, for San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX.

Ceiling watch

ClearNo cell reaches $197,200.

Key facts

Rank on paper, GS-12 step 5
#46 of 57
Rank after local prices
#24 of 57
Locality pay change since 2016
+4.43 points
Rank of that change
#39 of 58
Pay gap, latest council estimate
41.20%
Rate the 1990 formula would set
34.48%
Federal civilian jobs, 2025
38,799
Share of all jobs here
3.30%
Largest county by federal jobs
Bexar County, TX: 36,959
Sources and methods

Every 2026 rate in San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, TX

Every 2026 rate in San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, TX, 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.
Grade12345678910
GS-126,82527,72428,61629,50530,39530,91631,79932,68732,72433,553
GS-230,16230,87931,87932,72433,09034,06335,03536,00836,98137,954
GS-332,91234,00935,10736,20437,30238,39939,49740,59441,69242,789
GS-436,94438,17639,40840,63941,87143,10344,33545,56646,79848,030
GS-541,33442,71244,09045,46846,84648,22349,60150,97952,35753,735
GS-646,07647,61249,14850,68352,21953,75555,29156,82758,36359,898
GS-751,20152,90854,61556,32258,02959,73661,44363,14964,85666,563
GS-856,70358,59360,48362,37364,26266,15268,04269,93271,82273,711
GS-962,62964,71766,80568,89470,98273,07075,15877,24679,33481,423
GS-1068,96871,26773,56575,86478,16280,46082,75985,05787,35689,654
GS-1175,77678,30280,82983,35585,88288,40890,93493,46195,98798,514
GS-1290,82393,85096,87899,906102,934105,961108,989112,017115,044118,072
GS-13108,001111,601115,201118,801122,402126,002129,602133,202136,802140,403
GS-14127,624131,879136,134140,388144,643148,898153,153157,407161,662165,917
GS-15150,119155,123160,127165,132170,136175,140180,144185,148190,153195,157
Hourly rates in San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, TX, 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-112.8513.2813.7114.1414.5614.8115.2415.6615.6816.08
GS-214.4514.8015.2815.6815.8616.3216.7917.2517.7218.19
GS-315.7716.3016.8217.3517.8718.4018.9319.4519.9820.50
GS-417.7018.2918.8819.4720.0620.6521.2421.8322.4223.01
GS-519.8120.4721.1321.7922.4523.1123.7724.4325.0925.75
GS-622.0822.8123.5524.2925.0225.7626.4927.2327.9728.70
GS-724.5325.3526.1726.9927.8028.6229.4430.2631.0831.89
GS-827.1728.0828.9829.8930.7931.7032.6033.5134.4135.32
GS-930.0131.0132.0133.0134.0135.0136.0137.0138.0139.01
GS-1033.0534.1535.2536.3537.4538.5539.6540.7641.8642.96
GS-1136.3137.5238.7339.9441.1542.3643.5744.7845.9947.20
GS-1243.5244.9746.4247.8749.3250.7752.2253.6755.1256.57
GS-1351.7553.4755.2056.9258.6560.3762.1063.8265.5567.28
GS-1461.1563.1965.2367.2769.3171.3573.3875.4277.4679.50
GS-1571.9374.3376.7379.1281.5283.9286.3288.7191.1193.51
Biweekly rates in San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, TX, 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-11,028.001,062.401,096.801,131.201,164.801,184.801,219.201,252.801,254.401,286.40
GS-21,156.001,184.001,222.401,254.401,268.801,305.601,343.201,380.001,417.601,455.20
GS-31,261.601,304.001,345.601,388.001,429.601,472.001,514.401,556.001,598.401,640.00
GS-41,416.001,463.201,510.401,557.601,604.801,652.001,699.201,746.401,793.601,840.80
GS-51,584.801,637.601,690.401,743.201,796.001,848.801,901.601,954.402,007.202,060.00
GS-61,766.401,824.801,884.001,943.202,001.602,060.802,119.202,178.402,237.602,296.00
GS-71,962.402,028.002,093.602,159.202,224.002,289.602,355.202,420.802,486.402,551.20
GS-82,173.602,246.402,318.402,391.202,463.202,536.002,608.002,680.802,752.802,825.60
GS-92,400.802,480.802,560.802,640.802,720.802,800.802,880.802,960.803,040.803,120.80
GS-102,644.002,732.002,820.002,908.002,996.003,084.003,172.003,260.803,348.803,436.80
GS-112,904.803,001.603,098.403,195.203,292.003,388.803,485.603,582.403,679.203,776.00
GS-123,481.603,597.603,713.603,829.603,945.604,061.604,177.604,293.604,409.604,525.60
GS-134,140.004,277.604,416.004,553.604,692.004,829.604,968.005,105.605,244.005,382.40
GS-144,892.005,055.205,218.405,381.605,544.805,708.005,870.406,033.606,196.806,360.00
GS-155,754.405,946.406,138.406,329.606,521.606,713.606,905.607,096.807,288.807,480.80
Source: OPM 2026 General Schedule salary table for this area, Salary Table 2026-SO, matched cell by cell.

Under the 2027 proposal this area keeps 18.78% and GS-12 step 5 keeps $102,934 (2027 pay raise; compare with Rest of U.S.).

Locality pay in San Antonio, 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. Grey: the Rest of U.S. rate its counties were paid before it had a table of its own. Sources and caveats.
Locality pay, %20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
San Antonio, TX14.3515.0615.3716.0716.7716.7717.3918.0018.4918.7818.78
Rest of U.S.14.3515.0615.3715.6715.9515.9516.2016.5016.8217.0617.06

San Antonio, TX got a locality pay table of its own in 2019; the grey figures before that are the Rest of U.S. rate its counties were paid.

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

Federal Salary Council estimates for San Antonio, 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. Formula rate “—”: the memos print none for a Rest of U.S. research area, whose gap is from the memo’s research-area table. 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 area41.2034.4818.78
2025March 2023Locality pay area42.2935.5118.78
2024March 2022Locality pay area42.5535.7618.49
2023March 2021Locality pay area42.4035.6218.00
2022March 2020Locality pay area42.3135.5317.39
2021March 2019Locality pay area47.0340.0316.77
2020March 2018Locality pay area53.1645.8716.77
2019March 2017Locality pay area55.2447.8516.07
2018March 2016Rest of U.S. research area53.99—15.37

Since the edition for pay in 2018, the first checked here, the estimate for San Antonio, TX has fallen 12.79 points, from 53.99% to 41.20%, the fifth-biggest fall of the 56 areas with a gap in all nine editions.

San Antonio, TX is a separate locality pay area in the memos from the edition for pay in 2019; before that, in the edition for pay in 2018, it is a Rest of U.S. research area, with a gap of 53.99%.

What a GS-12 step 5 buys after local prices

The areas ranked next to San Antonio, 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
21Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI$106,08896.9$109,440
22St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL$104,01795.1$109,390
23Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD$111,781102.6$108,997
24San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, TX$102,93494.7$108,676
25Richmond, VA$105,96797.9$108,286
26Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC$105,93298.2$107,921
27Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Las Vegas, NM$102,54495.5$107,324

Federal jobs in San Antonio, TX

Federal civilian jobs at worksites in the 14 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 13,060 federal jobs in Texas without a county; they belong to no area. Sources and caveats.
YearFederal civilian jobsShare of all jobs, %Average pay per job
202338,4403.33$89,207
202439,2663.36$93,279
202538,7993.30$93,858

Bexar County, Texas, alone holds 95.3% of them, 36,959 jobs, the second-largest share for one county of the 56 areas with more than one.

Counties in San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, TX

14 counties paid at this rate

Texas, 14 counties

  • Atascosa County
  • Bandera County
  • Bexar County
  • Comal County
  • Frio County
  • Gillespie County (added 2024)
  • Gonzales County (added 2024)
  • Guadalupe County
  • Karnes County (added 2024)
  • Kendall County
  • Kerr County (added 2024)
  • McMullen County (added 2024)
  • Medina County
  • Wilson County
Source: OPM 2026 locality pay area definitions. The duty station’s county counts (how that works).