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St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL$104,017a year$3,987.20Every two weeks$49.84Per hour$50.09Overtime hour#37On paper#22After prices
  1. GS pay scale 2026
  2. St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL

58 locality pay areasPage last changed 2026-10-07

St. Louis, MO GS pay scale 2026: 20.03% locality pay

In 2026 the St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL locality pay area adds 20.03% to the General Schedule base table: a GS-12 step 5 earns $104,017, and the 150 rates run from $27,108 to $197,200, the statutory ceiling.

GS-12 step 5, assembled

Base rate
$86,659
Locality pay, 20.03%
+ $17,358
Annual rate
$104,017

$3,987.20 every two weeks, $49.84 an hour, $50.09 an overtime hour.

#37 on paper, #22 after prices

+15Places gained, of 57 areas with a price index.

Buys at U.S. prices

$109,390Price level 95.1, U.S. = 100, for St. Louis, MO-IL.

Ceiling watch

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

Key facts

Rank on paper, GS-12 step 5
#37 of 57
Rank after local prices
#22 of 57
Locality pay change since 2016
+5.54 points
Rank of that change
#20 of 58, tied
Pay gap, latest council estimate
46.09%
Rate the 1990 formula would set
39.13%
Federal civilian jobs, 2025
23,878
Share of all jobs here
1.67%
Largest county by federal jobs
St. Louis City, MO: 8,852
Sources and methods

Every 2026 rate in St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL

Every 2026 rate in St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL, 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-127,10828,01628,91829,81530,71431,24132,13333,03133,06833,906
GS-230,47931,20432,21533,06833,43834,42135,40436,38737,37038,353
GS-333,25834,36735,47636,58537,69438,80339,91241,02142,13143,240
GS-437,33338,57839,82241,06742,31243,55644,80146,04647,29148,535
GS-541,76943,16244,55445,94647,33948,73150,12351,51652,90854,300
GS-646,56148,11349,66551,21752,76954,32155,87357,42558,97760,529
GS-751,74053,46555,19056,91558,63960,36462,08963,81465,53967,264
GS-857,30059,21061,11963,02964,93966,84868,75870,66872,57774,487
GS-963,28865,39867,50869,61971,72973,83975,94978,05980,16982,279
GS-1069,69472,01774,33976,66278,98581,30783,63085,95288,27590,597
GS-1176,57379,12681,67984,23286,78589,33891,89194,44496,99799,550
GS-1291,77994,83897,898100,957104,017107,076110,136113,195116,255119,315
GS-13109,137112,775116,413120,052123,690127,328130,966134,604138,242141,880
GS-14128,967133,267137,566141,866146,165150,465154,764159,064163,363167,663
GS-15151,699156,756161,812166,869171,926176,983182,040187,097192,154197,200
Hourly rates in St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL, 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-112.9913.4213.8614.2914.7214.9715.4015.8315.8416.25
GS-214.6014.9515.4415.8416.0216.4916.9617.4417.9118.38
GS-315.9416.4717.0017.5318.0618.5919.1219.6620.1920.72
GS-417.8918.4819.0819.6820.2720.8721.4722.0622.6623.26
GS-520.0120.6821.3522.0222.6823.3524.0224.6825.3526.02
GS-622.3123.0523.8024.5425.2826.0326.7727.5228.2629.00
GS-724.7925.6226.4427.2728.1028.9229.7530.5831.4032.23
GS-827.4628.3729.2930.2031.1232.0332.9533.8634.7835.69
GS-930.3231.3432.3533.3634.3735.3836.3937.4038.4139.42
GS-1033.3934.5135.6236.7337.8538.9640.0741.1842.3043.41
GS-1136.6937.9139.1440.3641.5842.8144.0345.2546.4847.70
GS-1243.9845.4446.9148.3749.8451.3152.7754.2455.7057.17
GS-1352.2954.0455.7857.5259.2761.0162.7564.5066.2467.98
GS-1461.8063.8665.9267.9870.0472.1074.1676.2278.2880.34
GS-1572.6975.1177.5379.9682.3884.8087.2389.6592.0794.49
Biweekly rates in St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL, 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-11,039.201,073.601,108.801,143.201,177.601,197.601,232.001,266.401,267.201,300.00
GS-21,168.001,196.001,235.201,267.201,281.601,319.201,356.801,395.201,432.801,470.40
GS-31,275.201,317.601,360.001,402.401,444.801,487.201,529.601,572.801,615.201,657.60
GS-41,431.201,478.401,526.401,574.401,621.601,669.601,717.601,764.801,812.801,860.80
GS-51,600.801,654.401,708.001,761.601,814.401,868.001,921.601,974.402,028.002,081.60
GS-61,784.801,844.001,904.001,963.202,022.402,082.402,141.602,201.602,260.802,320.00
GS-71,983.202,049.602,115.202,181.602,248.002,313.602,380.002,446.402,512.002,578.40
GS-82,196.802,269.602,343.202,416.002,489.602,562.402,636.002,708.802,782.402,855.20
GS-92,425.602,507.202,588.002,668.802,749.602,830.402,911.202,992.003,072.803,153.60
GS-102,671.202,760.802,849.602,938.403,028.003,116.803,205.603,294.403,384.003,472.80
GS-112,935.203,032.803,131.203,228.803,326.403,424.803,522.403,620.003,718.403,816.00
GS-123,518.403,635.203,752.803,869.603,987.204,104.804,221.604,339.204,456.004,573.60
GS-134,183.204,323.204,462.404,601.604,741.604,880.805,020.005,160.005,299.205,438.40
GS-144,944.005,108.805,273.605,438.405,603.205,768.005,932.806,097.606,262.406,427.20
GS-155,815.206,008.806,202.406,396.806,590.406,784.006,978.407,172.007,365.607,559.20
Source: OPM 2026 General Schedule salary table for this area, Salary Table 2026-SL, matched cell by cell.

Under the 2027 proposal this area keeps 20.03% and GS-12 step 5 keeps $104,017 (2027 pay raise; compare with Rest of U.S.).

Locality pay in St. Louis, MO 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
St. Louis, MO14.4915.8316.4717.0517.6517.6518.3519.1019.6320.0320.03
Rest of U.S.14.3515.0615.3715.6715.9515.9516.2016.5016.8217.0617.06

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

In 2024 OPM added 13 counties in Illinois and Missouri to it, the fourth-most it added to any area.

What the 1990 pay law’s formula would pay in St. Louis, MO

Federal Salary Council estimates for St. Louis, MO 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 area46.0939.1320.03
2025March 2023Locality pay area50.0742.9220.03
2024March 2022Locality pay area45.4038.4819.63
2023March 2021Locality pay area47.8340.7919.10
2022March 2020Locality pay area46.0639.1018.35
2021March 2019Locality pay area47.7640.7217.65
2020March 2018Locality pay area49.5642.4417.65
2019March 2017Locality pay area50.5443.3717.05
2018March 2016Locality pay area53.0845.7916.47

What a GS-12 step 5 buys after local prices

The areas ranked next to St. Louis, MO 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
19San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA$126,817115.6$109,691
20Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI$113,402103.6$109,467
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

Federal jobs in St. Louis, MO

Federal civilian jobs at worksites in the 30 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 3,586 federal jobs in Illinois and Missouri without a county; they belong to no area. Sources and caveats.
YearFederal civilian jobsShare of all jobs, %Average pay per job
202324,2251.69$88,029
202424,4861.71$90,446
202523,8781.67$92,965

Counties in St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL

30 counties paid at this rate

Illinois, 14 counties

  • Bond County
  • Calhoun County
  • Clinton County
  • Fayette County (added 2024)
  • Greene County (added 2024)
  • Jersey County
  • Macoupin County
  • Madison County
  • Marion County
  • Monroe County
  • Montgomery County (added 2024)
  • Randolph County (added 2024)
  • St. Clair County
  • Washington County (added 2024)

Missouri, 16 counties

  • Crawford County (added 2024)
  • Franklin County
  • Gasconade County (added 2024)
  • Iron County (added 2024)
  • Jefferson County
  • Lincoln County
  • Madison County (added 2024)
  • Montgomery County (added 2024)
  • Pike County (added 2024)
  • St. Charles County
  • St. Francois County
  • St. Louis County
  • St. Louis city
  • Ste. Genevieve County (added 2024)
  • Warren County
  • Washington County (added 2024)
Source: OPM 2026 locality pay area definitions. The duty station’s county counts (how that works).