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Read more about how raises are set each year and when raises go into effect. This table lists the yearly across-the-board General Schedule base pay raises since 2008. You can also calculate the applicable raises for any paygrade by using our powerful General Schedule Pay Calculator. Year. GS Raise.
General Schedule (GS) Pay Raise History. Each year congress decides whether or not to raise the General Schedule (GS) pay scale, which applies to nearly 3 million federal employees across the 15 Federal Departments and numerous independent agencies. Pay raises are typically 1-3%, although pay rates may be frozen during difficult economic times.
2009 GS Pay Raise: This year, the General Schedule base payscale received a 2.9% across-the-board pay raise. A GS-13 Step 3 federal employee would receive an effective raise of $2,122.00 in 2009, from $73,201.00 per year (based on the 2008 GS base table) to $75,323.00 per year.
2009 General Schedule Pay Raise: From 2008 to 2009, the GS pay rates were raised a total of 2.9%. This table shows the base pay amounts for all General Schedule employees based on the 2009 GS Pay Scale, as published by the Office of Personnel Management.
Last year, federal employees received a 4.7% raise. The table below shows the federal General Schedule Base Payscale factoring in next-year's expected 5.2% across-the-board raise. The official 2025 GS payscale will be published here as soon as the official rates are released.
24 sty 2022 · President Biden's Executive Order on the 2022 federal pay raise impacts a number of federal employee pay schedules. How Can Locality Pay Be Smaller than a COLA? Locality pay is determined using a complex system of comparing federal and private sector pay.
Over the years, the Federal pay-setting process has been a topic of considerable debate, partly because of the large numbers involved—approximately 1.18 million GS employees received a 2009 pay increase, payroll that the President allocated for locality pay was estimated at $756 mil-lion—and partly because of concerns over
