[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14113 have been superseded.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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