GS Locality Pay Tables

Salary Table 2025-CT

Incorporating the 1.7% General Schedule Increase and a Locality Payment of 19.67%

For the Locality Pay Area of Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC

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 26758 27656 28545 29432 30320 30839 31720 32606 32642 33472
2 30087 30803 31800 32642 33009 33979 34950 35920 36891 37861
3 32830 33924 35018 36112 37205 38299 39393 40487 41581 42674
4 36852 38081 39310 40539 41768 42997 44226 45455 46684 47913
5 41231 42605 43979 45353 46726 48100 49474 50848 52222 53595
6 45962 47493 49025 50557 52089 53621 55152 56684 58216 59748
7 51074 52777 54480 56183 57886 59588 61291 62994 64697 66400
8 56562 58448 60334 62220 64106 65992 67878 69764 71650 73536
9 62474 64556 66638 68720 70803 72885 74967 77050 79132 81214
10 68797 71090 73383 75676 77969 80261 82554 84847 87140 89433
11 75587 78106 80625 83144 85663 88182 90701 93221 95740 98259
12 90597 93618 96638 99659 102679 105700 108720 111741 114761 117782
13 107733 111324 114916 118507 122098 125689 129281 132872 136463 140055
14 127307 131551 135794 140038 144281 148525 152768 157012 161255 165499
15 149747 154738 159730 164721 169712 174704 179695 184687 189678 194670

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

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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.

2024 Federal Employees Handbook