2024 GS Pay Scale - Federal Pay Raise Finalized in Executive Order (2024)

The White House issued an Executive Order Thursday finalizing the 2024 federal employee pay raise of an overall average of 5.2 percent.

The 2024 GS pay schedules are effective the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2024 (January 14, 2024, based on the standard biweekly payroll cycle).

SEE ALSO: New 2024 Locality Pay Areas Finalized Affecting 33,000 Federal Employees

The 2024 GS pay scale increase coincides with White House’s original plan proposed in the fiscal 2024 budget which provides federal employees with an across-the-board 4.7% raise plus an average 0.5% increase in locality pay.

The increase is the largest pay raise for civilian federal employees in more than 40 years. In 2023, the pay raise was an overall increase of 4.6%.

SEE ALSO: Federal Retiree COLA Increase for 2024

OPM 2024 GS Pay Tables (Now Available)

The Office of Personnel Management has published the official pay tables here that include 2024 locality pay adjustments.

Get 2024 GS Pay Scale Tables

2024 GS Pay Scale Table
Incorporating the 4.7% General Schedule Increase (not including locality pay adjustments)
Effective January 2024
Annual Rates by Grade and Step

Below is the full text of the Executive Order. The Executive order provides an across-the-board increase of 4.7 percent in the rates of basic pay for the statutory pay systems — the General Schedule (GS), the Foreign Service schedule, and certain schedules for the Veterans Health Administration of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Special base rates for law enforcement officers at GS grades 3 through 10 are also increased by 4.7 percent.

Executive Order on Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

December 21, 2023 — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Statutory Pay Systems. The rates of basic pay or salaries of the statutory pay systems (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 5302(1)), as adjusted under 5 U.S.C. 5303, are set forth on the schedules attached hereto and made a part hereof:

(a) The General Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5332(a)) at Schedule 1;

(b) The Foreign Service Schedule (22 U.S.C. 3963) at Schedule 2; and

(c) The schedules for the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs (38 U.S.C. 7306, 7401, 7404; section 301(a) of Public Law 102–40) at Schedule 3.

Sec. 2. Senior Executive Service. The ranges of rates of basic pay for senior executives in the Senior Executive Service, as established pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5382, are set forth on Schedule 4 attached hereto and made a part hereof.

Sec. 3. Certain Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries. The rates of basic pay or salaries for the following offices and positions are set forth on the schedules attached hereto and made a part hereof:

(a) The Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5311–5318) at Schedule 5;

(b) The Vice President (3 U.S.C. 104) and the Congress (2 U.S.C. 4501) at Schedule 6; and

(c) Justices and judges (28 U.S.C. 5, 44(d), 135, 252, and 461(a)) at Schedule 7.

Sec. 4. Uniformed Services. The rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C. 203(a)) for members of the uniformed services, as adjusted under 37 U.S.C. 1009, and the rate of monthly cadet or midshipman pay (37 U.S.C. 203(c)) are set forth on Schedule 8 attached hereto and made a part hereof.

Sec. 5. Locality-Based Comparability Payments.

(a) Pursuant to section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, and my authority to implement an alternative level of comparability payments under section 5304a of title 5, United States Code, locality-based comparability payments shall be paid in accordance with Schedule 9 attached hereto and made a part hereof.

(b) The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall take such actions as may be necessary to implement these payments and to publish appropriate notice of such payments in the Federal Register.

Sec. 6. Administrative Law Judges. Pursuant to section 5372 of title 5, United States Code, the rates of basic pay for administrative law judges are set forth on Schedule 10 attached hereto and made a part hereof.

Sec. 7. Effective Dates. Schedule 8 is effective January 1, 2024. The other schedules contained herein are effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2024.

Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 14090 of December 23, 2022, is superseded as of the effective dates specified in section 7 of this order.