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Tucson-Nogales, AZ$103,367a year$3,962.40Every two weeks$49.53Per hour$49.79Overtime hour#42On paper#32After prices
  1. GS pay scale 2026
  2. Tucson-Nogales, AZ

58 locality pay areasPage last changed 2026-10-07

Tucson, AZ GS pay scale 2026: 19.28% locality pay

In 2026 the Tucson-Nogales, AZ locality pay area adds 19.28% to the General Schedule base table: a GS-12 step 5 earns $103,367, and the 150 rates run from $26,938 to $195,978.

GS-12 step 5, assembled

Base rate
$86,659
Locality pay, 19.28%
+ $16,708
Annual rate
$103,367

$3,962.40 every two weeks, $49.53 an hour, $49.79 an overtime hour.

#42 on paper, #32 after prices

+10Places gained, of 57 areas with a price index.

Buys at U.S. prices

$106,678Price level 96.9, U.S. = 100, for Tucson, AZ.

Ceiling watch

ClearNo cell reaches $197,200.

Key facts

Rank on paper, GS-12 step 5
#42 of 57
Rank after local prices
#32 of 57
Locality pay change since 2016
+4.77 points
Rank of that change
#33 of 58
Pay gap, latest council estimate
43.40%
Rate the 1990 formula would set
36.57%
Federal civilian jobs, 2025
18,330
Share of all jobs here
4.21%
Largest county by federal jobs
Pima County, AZ: 12,492
Sources and methods

Every 2026 rate in Tucson-Nogales, AZ

Every 2026 rate in Tucson-Nogales, 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.
Grade12345678910
GS-126,93827,84128,73729,62930,52331,04631,93232,82532,86233,694
GS-230,28931,00932,01432,86233,22934,20635,18336,16037,13738,114
GS-333,05034,15235,25436,35737,45938,56139,66340,76541,86742,969
GS-437,10038,33739,57440,81042,04743,28444,52145,75846,99548,232
GS-541,50842,89244,27645,65947,04348,42649,81051,19452,57753,961
GS-646,27047,81249,35450,89752,43953,98155,52457,06658,60860,151
GS-751,41753,13154,84556,55958,27359,98761,70163,41565,12966,843
GS-856,94258,84060,73762,63564,53366,43168,32870,22672,12474,022
GS-962,89364,99067,08769,18471,28173,37775,47477,57179,66881,765
GS-1069,25971,56773,87576,18378,49180,79983,10785,41587,72390,031
GS-1176,09578,63281,16983,70686,24388,78091,31793,85496,39198,928
GS-1291,20594,24697,286100,326103,367106,407109,448112,488115,529118,569
GS-13108,455112,071115,686119,301122,917126,532130,148133,763137,378140,994
GS-14128,162132,434136,707140,979145,252149,525153,797158,070162,342166,615
GS-15150,751155,776160,801165,827170,852175,877180,902185,928190,953195,978
Hourly rates in Tucson-Nogales, 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.
Grade12345678910
GS-112.9113.3413.7714.2014.6314.8815.3015.7315.7516.14
GS-214.5114.8615.3415.7515.9216.3916.8617.3317.7918.26
GS-315.8416.3616.8917.4217.9518.4819.0019.5320.0620.59
GS-417.7818.3718.9619.5520.1520.7421.3321.9322.5223.11
GS-519.8920.5521.2221.8822.5423.2023.8724.5325.1925.86
GS-622.1722.9123.6524.3925.1325.8726.6027.3428.0828.82
GS-724.6425.4626.2827.1027.9228.7429.5630.3931.2132.03
GS-827.2828.1929.1030.0130.9231.8332.7433.6534.5635.47
GS-930.1431.1432.1533.1534.1535.1636.1637.1738.1739.18
GS-1033.1934.2935.4036.5037.6138.7239.8240.9342.0343.14
GS-1136.4637.6838.8940.1141.3242.5443.7644.9746.1947.40
GS-1243.7045.1646.6248.0749.5350.9952.4453.9055.3656.81
GS-1351.9753.7055.4357.1658.9060.6362.3664.0965.8367.56
GS-1461.4163.4665.5067.5569.6071.6573.6975.7477.7979.83
GS-1572.2374.6477.0579.4681.8684.2786.6889.0991.5093.90
Biweekly rates in Tucson-Nogales, 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.
Grade12345678910
GS-11,032.801,067.201,101.601,136.001,170.401,190.401,224.001,258.401,260.001,291.20
GS-21,160.801,188.801,227.201,260.001,273.601,311.201,348.801,386.401,423.201,460.80
GS-31,267.201,308.801,351.201,393.601,436.001,478.401,520.001,562.401,604.801,647.20
GS-41,422.401,469.601,516.801,564.001,612.001,659.201,706.401,754.401,801.601,848.80
GS-51,591.201,644.001,697.601,750.401,803.201,856.001,909.601,962.402,015.202,068.80
GS-61,773.601,832.801,892.001,951.202,010.402,069.602,128.002,187.202,246.402,305.60
GS-71,971.202,036.802,102.402,168.002,233.602,299.202,364.802,431.202,496.802,562.40
GS-82,182.402,255.202,328.002,400.802,473.602,546.402,619.202,692.002,764.802,837.60
GS-92,411.202,491.202,572.002,652.002,732.002,812.802,892.802,973.603,053.603,134.40
GS-102,655.202,743.202,832.002,920.003,008.803,097.603,185.603,274.403,362.403,451.20
GS-112,916.803,014.403,111.203,208.803,305.603,403.203,500.803,597.603,695.203,792.00
GS-123,496.003,612.803,729.603,845.603,962.404,079.204,195.204,312.004,428.804,544.80
GS-134,157.604,296.004,434.404,572.804,712.004,850.404,988.805,127.205,266.405,404.80
GS-144,912.805,076.805,240.005,404.005,568.005,732.005,895.206,059.206,223.206,386.40
GS-155,778.405,971.206,164.006,356.806,548.806,741.606,934.407,127.207,320.007,512.00
Source: OPM 2026 General Schedule salary table for this area, Salary Table 2026-TU, matched cell by cell.

No cell here reaches the $197,200 ceiling, but GS-15 step 10, at $195,978, is $1,222 short of it, the fifth-closest of the 21 areas whose rates all stay below it.

Under the 2027 proposal this area keeps 19.28% and GS-12 step 5 keeps $103,367 (2027 pay raise; compare with Rest of U.S.).

Locality pay in Tucson, AZ 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
Tucson, AZ14.5115.6616.1716.6817.1917.1917.7718.4018.9219.2819.28
Rest of U.S.14.3515.0615.3715.6715.9515.9516.2016.5016.8217.0617.06

Tucson, AZ 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 37th to 41st by locality percentage, the fifth-biggest slide of them, shared with Hartford, CT and Las Vegas, NV.

What the 1990 pay law’s formula would pay in Tucson, AZ

Federal Salary Council estimates for Tucson, AZ 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 area43.4036.5719.28
2025March 2023Locality pay area46.5639.5819.28
2024March 2022Locality pay area44.2737.4018.92
2023March 2021Locality pay area43.5936.7518.40
2022March 2020Locality pay area41.7434.9917.77
2021March 2019Locality pay area39.6332.9817.19
2020March 2018Locality pay area45.1038.1917.19
2019March 2017Locality pay area46.7439.7516.68
2018March 2016Locality pay area46.3639.3916.17

What a GS-12 step 5 buys after local prices

The areas ranked next to Tucson, AZ 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
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
34Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC$103,70597.3$106,530
35Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX$104,29498.1$106,351

Federal jobs in Tucson, AZ

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 2,158 federal jobs in Arizona without a county; they belong to no area. Sources and caveats.
YearFederal civilian jobsShare of all jobs, %Average pay per job
202318,8244.33$100,005
202418,9954.37$106,148
202518,3304.21$112,032

Counties in Tucson-Nogales, AZ

3 counties paid at this rate

Arizona, 3 counties

  • Cochise County
  • Pima County
  • Santa Cruz County
Source: OPM 2026 locality pay area definitions. The duty station’s county counts (how that works).