2025 GS Pay Table – Buffalo – Cheektowaga – Olean, NY

By: FEDweek Staff

Salary Table 2025-BU

Incorporating the 1.7% General Schedule Increase and a Locality Payment of 22.41%

For the Locality Pay Area of Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Olean, NY

Total Increase: 2.05%

Effective January 2025

Annual Rates by Grade and Step

Grade	Step 1	Step 2	Step 3	Step 4	Step 5	Step 6	Step 7	Step 8	Step 9	Step 10
1	27371	28289	29198	30106	31014	31545	32446	33353	33390	34238
2	30776	31508	32528	33390	33764	34757	35750	36743	37735	38728
3	33582	34701	35820	36938	38057	39176	40295	41414	42533	43651
4	37696	38953	40210	41468	42725	43982	45239	46496	47753	49011
5	42175	43580	44986	46391	47796	49201	50607	52012	53417	54823
6	47014	48581	50148	51715	53281	54848	56415	57982	59549	61116
7	52243	53985	55727	57469	59211	60953	62695	64437	66179	67920
8	57857	59786	61715	63645	65574	67503	69432	71361	73291	75220
9	63904	66034	68164	70294	72424	74554	76684	78814	80944	83074
10	70372	72718	75063	77408	79754	82099	84445	86790	89135	91481
11	77318	79895	82471	85048	87625	90201	92778	95355	97932	100508
12	92672	95761	98851	101941	105030	108120	111209	114299	117389	120478
13	110200	113873	117547	121220	124894	128567	132241	135914	139588	143261
14	130222	134563	138904	143244	147585	151925	156266	160607	164947	169288
15	153175	158281	163387	168492	173598	178704	183810	188915	194021	195200 *

Source: OPM
* Rate limited to the rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5304 (g)(1)).

See also,

Next Steps Taken Toward Launch of ‘Schedule Policy/Career’

Budget Outline Clears Way for Move to Reduce Value of Federal Workforce Benefits

Hiring Freeze Extended as Main Wave of RIFs and Reorganizations Approaches

Trump Order Ends Policies that ‘Unnecessarily Restricted’ Federal Office Relocations

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Locality raises are determined by comparisons of local private sector salary rates, not by cost of living. An individual’s rate is based on where he or she works, not where he or she lives.

Federal Pay Systems
The general schedule salary system for white collar federal employees is what is generally referred to the “civil service” pay system even though it now covers only just more than half of the workforce. The wage system for blue collar employees is the next largest while numerous other special salary systems make up the rest.

Separate salary systems are maintained for Senior Executive Service members, the U.S. Postal Service, the Foreign Service, law enforcement officers, most medical personnel of the Veterans Health Administration and high-level officials including administrative law judges, Board of Contract Appeal members, and certain senior professional employees.

Presidential appointees are paid under the Executive Schedule system while federal judges and members of Congress also have separate pay schedules.

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