2025 GS Pay Table – Seattle – Tacoma, WA

By: FEDweek Staff

Salary Table 2025-SEA

Incorporating the 1.7% General Schedule Increase and a Locality Payment of 31.57%

For the Locality Pay Area of Seattle-Tacoma, WA

Total Increase: 2.29%

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	29419	30406	31383	32358	33335	33906	34874	35849	35888	36800
2	33079	33866	34962	35888	36291	37358	38425	39492	40559	41626
3	36095	37297	38500	39703	40905	42108	43310	44513	45715	46918
4	40517	41868	43219	44571	45922	47273	48624	49976	51327	52678
5	45331	46842	48352	49862	51373	52883	54394	55904	57415	58925
6	50532	52216	53900	55584	57268	58953	60637	62321	64005	65689
7	56153	58025	59897	61769	63642	65514	67386	69258	71131	73003
8	62187	64260	66334	68407	70481	72554	74628	76701	78775	80848
9	68686	70975	73265	75554	77843	80133	82422	84711	87001	89290
10	75638	78159	80680	83201	85722	88243	90764	93284	95805	98326
11	83104	85873	88643	91412	94182	96951	99721	102490	105260	108029
12	99606	102927	106248	109569	112890	116211	119531	122852	126173	129494
13	118446	122394	126343	130291	134240	138188	142136	146085	150033	153982
14	139967	144632	149298	153963	158629	163294	167960	172625	177291	181956
15	164637	170125	175613	181101	186589	192076	195200 *	195200 *	195200 *	195200 *

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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Guidance on ‘Schedule G’ Stresses Political Oversight

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Order Formally Launches ‘Schedule Policy/Career,’ Adds Category of Appointees

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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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