[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 48 (Thursday, March 13, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12000-12001]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04016]
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
January 2025 Pay Schedules
AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The rates of basic pay and locality payments for certain
Federal civilian employees are adjusted effective in January 2025. The
Executive order authorizes a 1.7 percent across-the-board increase for
statutory pay systems and locality pay increases costing approximately
0.3 percent of basic payroll, reflecting an overall average pay
increase of 2.0 percent. This notice serves as documentation for the
public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa Dismond; Pay, Leave, and
Workforce Flexibilities; Workforce Policy and Innovation; Office of
Personnel Management; (202) 606-2858 or [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Executive Order (E.O.) 14132 (89 FR 106963,
December 23, 2024) implemented pay adjustments for certain Federal
civilian employees in January 2025. E.O. 14132 provides an overall
average pay increase of 2.0 percent for the statutory pay systems. This
is consistent with the President's alternative pay plan issued under 5
U.S.C. 5303(b) and 5304a on August 30, 2024. The pay rates in E.O.
14113 have been superseded.
The publication of this notice satisfies the requirement in Section
5(b) of E.O. 14132 that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
publish appropriate notice of the 2025 locality payments in the Federal
Register.
Schedule 1 of E.O. 14132 provides the rates for the 2025 General
Schedule (GS) and reflects a 1.7 percent increase from 2024. Executive
Order 14132 also includes the percentage amounts of the 2025 locality
payments. (See Section 5 and Schedule 9 of Executive Order 14132.)
General Schedule employees receive locality payments under 5 U.S.C.
5304. Locality payments apply in the United States (as defined in 5
U.S.C. 5921(4)) and its territories and possessions. In 2025, locality
payments ranging from 17.06 percent to 46.34 percent apply to GS
employees in the 58 locality pay areas. The 2025 locality pay area
definitions \1\ can be found on OPM's website.
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\1\ Office of Personnel Management. ``2025 Locality Pay Area
Definitions.'' Locality Pay Area Definitions.'' https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/2025/locality-pay-area-definitions
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The 2025 locality pay percentages became effective the first day of
the first pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2025 (January 12,
2025). An employee's locality rate of pay is computed by increasing his
or her scheduled annual rate of pay (as defined in 5 CFR 531.602) by
the applicable locality pay percentage. (See 5 CFR 531.604 and
531.609.)
Executive Order 14132 establishes the new Executive Schedule (EX),
which incorporates a 1.7 percent increase required under 5 U.S.C. 5318
(rounded to the nearest $100). By law, Executive Schedule officials are
not authorized to receive locality payments.
Executive Order 14132 establishes the 2025 range of rates of basic
pay for members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) under 5 U.S.C.
5382. The minimum rate of basic pay for the SES is $150,160 in 2025.
The maximum rate of the SES rate range is $225,700 (level
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II of the Executive Schedule) for SES members who are covered by a
certified SES performance appraisal system and $207,500 (level III of
the Executive Schedule) for SES members who are not covered by a
certified SES performance appraisal system.
The minimum rate of basic pay for the senior-level (SL) and
scientific and professional (ST) rate range was increased by 1.7
percent ($150,160 in 2025), which is the amount of the across-the-board
GS increase. The applicable maximum rate of the SL/ST rate range is
$225,700 (level II of the Executive Schedule) for SL or ST employees
who are covered by a certified SL/ST performance appraisal system and
$207,500 (level III of the Executive Schedule) for SL or ST employees
who are not covered by a certified SL/ST performance appraisal system.
Agencies with certified performance appraisal systems for SES members
and employees in SL and ST positions must also apply a higher aggregate
limitation on pay--up to the Vice President's salary ($289,400 in
2025.)
The American Relief Act, 2025 (Pub. L. 118-158, December 21, 2024),
contains a provision that continues the freeze on the payable pay rates
for the Vice President and certain senior political appointees at the
rates of pay and applicable limitations on payable rates of pay through
March 14, 2025. Future Congressional action will determine whether the
pay freeze continues beyond that date. OPM guidance on the continued
pay freeze for certain senior political officials can be found in CPM
2024-26.\2\
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\2\ Office of Personnel Management. ``Continued Pay Freeze for
Certain Senior Political Officials.'' https://chcoc.gov/content/continued-pay-freeze-certain-senior-political-officials-13
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Executive Order 14132 provides that the rates of basic pay for
administrative law judges (ALJs) under 5 U.S.C. 5372 are increased by
1.7 percent (rounded to the nearest $100) in 2025. The rate of basic
pay for AL-1 is $195,200 (equivalent to the rate for level IV of the
Executive Schedule). The rate of basic pay for AL-2 is $190,500. The
rates of basic pay for AL-3/A through 3/F range from $130,400 to
$180,600.
The rates of basic pay for members of Contract Appeals Boards are
calculated as a percentage of the rate for level IV of the Executive
Schedule. (See 5 U.S.C. 5372a.) Therefore, these rates of basic pay are
increased by 1.7 percent in 2025.
On November 6, 2024, OPM issued a memorandum \3\ on behalf of the
President's Pay Agent (the Secretary of Labor and the Directors of the
Office of Management and Budget and OPM) that continues GS locality
payments for ALJs and certain other non-GS employee categories in 2025.
By law, EX officials, SES members, employees in SL/ST positions, and
employees in certain other equivalent pay systems are not authorized to
receive locality payments. (Note: An exception applies to certain
grandfathered SES, SL, and ST employees stationed in a nonforeign area
on January 2, 2010. See CPM 2009-27.\4\ )
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\3\ Office of Personnel Management. ``Continuation of Locality
Payments for Non-General Schedule Employees.'' https://www.opm.gov/media/uzelauec/11-6-2024-extension-of-locality-pay-memo-for-non-gs-employees-2025.pdf
\4\ Office of Personnel Management. ``Nonforeign Area Retirement
Equity Assurance Act.'' https://www.chcoc.gov/content/nonforeign-area-retirement-equity-assurance-act.
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On December 23, 2024, OPM issued a memorandum (CPM 2024-23) \5\ on
the 2025 pay adjustments. The memorandum transmitted Executive Order
14132 and provided the 2025 salary tables, locality pay areas and
percentages, and information on general pay administration matters and
other related guidance. The 2025 ``Salaries & Wages'' posted on OPM's
website \6\ are the official rates of pay for affected employees and
are hereby incorporated as part of this notice.
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\5\ Office of Personnel Management. ``January 2025 Pay
Adjustments.'' https://www.chcoc.gov/content/january-2025-pay-adjustments.
\6\ Office of Personnel Management. ``Salaries & Wages.'' http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/
Office of Personnel Management.
Jerson Matias,
Federal Register Liaison.
[FR Doc. 2025-04016 Filed 3-12-25; 8:45 am]
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