58 locality pay areasPage last changed 2026-10-07

Florida GS pay scale 2026: the 3 locality pay areas in the state

In 2026 a GS-12 step 5 in Florida is paid $101,443 to $108,038, depending on which of its 3 locality pay areas, Rest of U.S. included, the duty station is in.

Spread at GS-12 step 5

$6,595

Goes furthest

$102,192At U.S. prices, in Palm Bay, FL.

Against Rest of U.S.

+$6,595over $101,443

Which areas cover Florida, and what each pays

GS-12 step 5 in 2026 in each area that covers Florida, what it buys at national average prices (BEA price level, U.S. = 100) and how many of the state’s 67 counties it covers; the county of the duty station decides (how that works). Source: the OPM 2026 General Schedule table of each area — Salary Table 2026-MFL (Miami, FL), Salary Table 2026-PB (Palm Bay, FL), Salary Table 2026-RUS (Rest of U.S.).
Locality pay area	Locality pay	On paper	Price level	What it buys	Counties here
Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale, FL	24.67%	$108,038	114.2	$94,641	8
Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL	17.93%	$102,197	100.0	$102,192	1
Rest of U.S.	17.06%	$101,443	—	—	58

Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale, FL pays $108,038, the most in Florida, but Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL pays $102,197 and leaves you $7,550 better off once local prices are counted, the largest such gap of the 17 states where the best-paid area is not the one that goes furthest.

Price levels across its areas run from 100.0 in Palm Bay, FL to 114.2 in Miami, FL, the fifth-widest range of the 24 states with two or more priced areas.

Counties of Florida in each locality pay area, as OPM’s 2026 definitions list them; the county of the duty station decides (how that works).
Locality pay area	Counties
Miami, FL	Broward County, Indian River County, Martin County, Miami-Dade County, Monroe County, Okeechobee County, Palm Beach County, St. Lucie County
Palm Bay, FL	Brevard County
Rest of U.S.	all other counties of Florida (58)

Federal jobs in Florida, area by area

158,330 federal civilian jobs in Florida in 2025, 1.60% of all jobs in the state, 2,989 fewer than in 2024, down 1.85%, by the locality pay area of the worksite county; every federal pay system counted. The share is of the 149,156 jobs BLS places in a county. BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024, 2025. The state total BLS publishes differs from the sum of its county rows by 1 job, from rounding of annual averages. Sources and caveats.
Locality pay area	Federal jobs, 2025	Share, %	Change from 2024
Rest of U.S.	103,793	69.6	−1,865
Miami, FL	38,925	26.1	−454
Palm Bay, FL	6,438	4.3	−530
No county reported	9,173	—	—

Its 158,330 federal civilian jobs are the fifth-most of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Every grade at step 5 in Florida

Annual rates in U.S. dollars at step 5; ▲ marks a cell cut to the $197,200 statutory ceiling. For any other step, the pay calculator finds the area from a ZIP code.
Grade	Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville	Rest of U.S.
GS-1	31,902	30,177	29,954
GS-2	34,731	32,853	32,611
GS-3	39,151	37,035	36,762
GS-4	43,947	41,572	41,265
GS-5	49,169	46,510	46,167
GS-6	54,809	51,846	51,463
GS-7	60,906	57,614	57,188
GS-8	67,449	63,802	63,332
GS-9	74,502	70,474	69,954
GS-10	82,038	77,603	77,030
GS-11	90,140	85,267	84,638
GS-12	108,038	102,197	101,443
GS-13	128,471	121,526	120,629
GS-14	151,816	143,608	142,549
GS-15	178,572	168,918	167,672

What a move inside Florida is worth after prices

A transfer at GS-12 step 5 between areas of Florida: the raise on paper, what it is worth at national average prices, and how much of it is left. Tax and housing are not in these figures (what the comparison leaves out).
Move	On paper	After prices	Kept
Palm Bay, FL to Miami, FL	+$5,841	−$7,550	none

Where else these areas reach

Locality pay areas are lists of counties and ignore state lines: inside one area a move across a state line does not change pay (how that works; every state and the areas in it).
Area	Counties here	Also covers
Miami, FL	8	nowhere else
Palm Bay, FL	1	nowhere else