2025 GS Pay Table – Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC

By: FEDweek Staff

Salary Table 2025-RA

Incorporating the 1.7% General Schedule Increase and a Locality Payment of 22.24%

For the Locality Pay Area of Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC

Total Increase: 1.98%

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	27333	28250	29158	30064	30971	31501	32401	33307	33343	34191
2	30734	31465	32483	33343	33717	34709	35700	36692	37683	38674
3	33535	34653	35770	36887	38004	39122	40239	41356	42474	43591
4	37644	38899	40155	41410	42665	43921	45176	46432	47687	48942
5	42117	43520	44923	46327	47730	49133	50536	51940	53343	54746
6	46949	48513	50078	51643	53207	54772	56337	57901	59466	61031
7	52171	53910	55650	57389	59129	60868	62608	64347	66087	67826
8	57777	59703	61630	63556	65483	67409	69336	71262	73189	75115
9	63815	65942	68069	70196	72323	74450	76577	78704	80831	82958
10	70275	72617	74959	77301	79643	81985	84327	86669	89012	91354
11	77210	79784	82357	84930	87503	90076	92649	95223	97796	100369
12	92543	95628	98714	101799	104884	107970	111055	114140	117226	120311
13	110047	113715	117383	121052	124720	128389	132057	135726	139394	143062
14	130041	134376	138711	143045	147380	151715	156049	160384	164718	169053
15	152963	158061	163160	168258	173357	178456	183554	188653	193752	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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