If the 3.9 percent raise figure for 2009 progressing in Congress makes it into law, it would be the largest increase since the 4.1 percent increase paid in 2004. The same amount was paid in 2003. The 2002 increase was 4.6 percent, the 2001 raise 3.7 percent, and the 2000 increase 4.8 percent. Since 2004, though, the raises have been lower—3.5 percent in 2005, 3.1 percent in 2006, 2.2 percent in 2007 and 3.5 percent in 2008. Those are average figures; actual GS raises vary by locality. The measure does not specify how the raise would be broken out for GS employees, but in similar past situations in which the raise was boosted above the White House request by 1 percentage point, that amount has been directed to locality pay and the remainder paid across the board. If that practice is followed, a 3.9 percent average likely would produce raises ranging from about 3.5 percent in the lowest-paid localities to about 5 percent in the highest-paid ones.