2025 Gs Pay Scale Increase 2025. The 2025 gs pay schedules are effective the first day of the first applicable pay. The 2025 federal employee pay raise averaging 2 percent will result in increasing the pay caps that apply to senior positions and to many in the upper ranks of the gs.
Hourly basic (b) rates by grade and step. There was a 2.0% cola for federal employees retirement system (fers) annuities, applicable to payments starting in january 2025.