Opm Pay Scale 2025 With Locality Pay Chart. Understanding how the system works can help you make better financial decisions for you and your family. For 2025, the federal salary council recommended expanding 22 existing locality pay areas, but not the creation of any new ones.
Beginning in 2024, opm finalized four new locality pay areas, increasing the pay rates of more than 33,000 federal employees earlier this year. This consists of a general schedule (gs) base pay increase of 1.7% and a 2025 gs locality pay increase of 0.3%.