The Federal Wage System (FWS) is a pay scale system that applies to blue-collar Federal government workers. The Office of Personnel Management, with the help of local labor unions, establishes hourly FWS pay tables for every major Government facility in the United States.

The Law Enforcement (LEO) payscale is the federal government payscale used to determine the salaries of over 70% of federal civilian employees.

Are federal employees paid on federal holidays? Yes, if a federal employee is regularly scheduled to work on a federal holiday, then they receive paid time off. If an employee is deemed "essential" and cannot take off for a holiday they will receive premium pay.

Employees new to the government earn 4 hours of annual leave per 80 hours worked. If you are a full-time employee, that equates to 13 days of paid personal leave per year. After 3 years of federal service, employees earn 6 hours per pay period (plus 10 …

FederalPay.org provides a searchable database of U.S. federal government employees.

This table shows the base pay amounts for all General Schedule employees based on the 2025 GS Pay Scale, as published by the Office of Personnel Management. General Schedule base pay tables are revised yearly, effective each January, to reflect inflation and increasing costs of living.

In 2025, the actual salary adjustments for a GS-11 employee will range from a maximum cost-of-living raise of 46.34% for employees working in San Francisco, to a minimum of a 17.06% cost-of-living raise in areas without a specified cost-of-living adjustment.

These pay scales assign steps to reflect how long a person has been with the federal government. Each step increase increases an employee’s pay 3-5%. General Schedule and Law Enforcement Officer Schedule use a 10-step system and have the …

This table lists the fifteen departments by total yearly outlay in billions (from highest to lowest), as well as number of employees and the year in which the department was established. Click on any department for more details.

There were 193,700 Wage Grade workers in 2020 with 2,715 working overseas and in the U.S. Territories. The largest employers include the Department of Navy hiring 45,412 followed by the Department of the Army with 40,439, and the Department of the Air Force with 49,167.