Locality Pay 2024 Seattle Pay. Federal wage system overview your pay will be the same as the pay of other federal jobs like yours in your wage area, and your pay will be in line with pay for private sector jobs. Pay & leave salaries & wages.

 — the 2024 gs pay scale incorporates a 2024 federal pay raise with an overall average increase of 5.2%.  — the changes to existing locality pay areas will affect approximately 17,100 general schedule (gs) employees, and establishing the four new locality pay areas will affect about 16,200 gs employees.