GS Salary
2026 OPM data

Federal pay, made inspectable

Map your GS step-increase timeline

Start from your current step and date to see the standard waiting periods, projected eligibility dates, and current-year pay at each step.

Your pay scenario

Set four inputs

Type a five-digit ZIP for an estimate, or search the exact OPM locality name.

Choose from every OPM locality
GS grade

GS-1 through GS-15.

Step

Published Step 1–10 rate.

Schedule

LEO and special rates depend on statutory and agency coverage.

Locality pay comparison

What changes if the duty station changes?

Same year, schedule, grade, and step. Only the OPM locality changes.

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Enter how much more or less you expect the second location to cost. No third-party cost index is assumed.

Calculate a salary, then choose a second locality.

Within-grade increases

See every standard waiting period

Eligibility also depends on acceptable performance and time in an equivalent increase.

Your current grade and step will carry into this timeline.

Two-step promotion rule

Find the target grade and step

Uses the standard method and flags cases where agency review is especially important.

The calculator will start from your current base rate and apply the two-step threshold.

Federal overtime

Title 5 published rate or FLSA estimate

FLSA status is determined by the agency and position, not by grade alone.

Overtime method

The published Title 5 rate from your pay table will be used by default.

FERS basic annuity

Turn a pay scenario into a retirement estimate

Basic annuity only—before survivor reduction, taxes, insurance, supplement, Social Security, or TSP.

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Your annual salary will prefill the high-3 field as a planning starting point.

Method and limits

Published rates first. Assumptions in plain sight.

Where salary numbers come from

Annual, hourly, Title 5 overtime, and pay-cap fields come from OPM's machine-readable pay tables whenever published. The page shows the exact source used for each result.

Why ZIP is not final

A ZIP centroid is mapped to a Census county FIPS code, then to OPM's locality definition. ZIPs can cross boundaries, so the result stays editable and clearly marked as an estimate.

What this calculator cannot decide

Agency determinations—official worksite, LEO or FLSA coverage, special-rate eligibility, retained pay, and alternate promotion methods—must be confirmed with HR or your SF-50.

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Last updated July 22, 2026.

Calculator inputs

Salary calculations run in your browser after public pay tables are loaded. gssalary.com does not require an account and does not intentionally collect your name, employee ID, SF-50, or agency record.

ZIP-assisted locality lookup

When you enter a ZIP code, the site sends that ZIP to its own Cloudflare Worker. The Worker requests a public ZIP centroid from Zippopotam.us and a county match from the U.S. Census Bureau, then matches the county to OPM's locality definition. Do not enter a street address.

Saved and shared scenarios

Saved scenarios are stored in local browser storage on your device. Share links contain the visible pay year, locality code/name, grade, step, schedule, and optional special-rate table in the URL. Anyone with the link can read those values.

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Controls

You can remove saved scenarios with “Clear all” or by clearing this site's storage in your browser. Avoid sharing a scenario link when the combination itself is sensitive in your context.

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Terms and calculation limits

Last updated July 22, 2026.

Independent tool

gssalary.com is an independent informational calculator. It is not OPM, your employing agency, payroll provider, legal counsel, or financial adviser.

Published data and estimates

The site aims to reproduce published OPM values accurately, but public sources, network responses, parsing, and user inputs can be incomplete or wrong. ZIP locality, promotion, FLSA, and FERS outputs are planning estimates, not personnel or benefits determinations.

Confirm consequential decisions

Before accepting a position, relocating, retiring, disputing payroll, or making another consequential decision, confirm the applicable pay table, official worksite, coverage, service history, and deductions with your agency and official records.

No warranty

The service is provided “as is” without a guarantee of uninterrupted availability or fitness for a particular decision. Use of the service is at your own risk to the extent allowed by law.

Acceptable use

Do not abuse, disrupt, scrape at a rate that burdens public upstream sources, probe for unauthorized access, or use the service to misrepresent an official government calculation.