2025 Federal Pay Schedule. This year, the general schedule base payscale received a. This will put the overall average pay increase at 2% for civilian federal employees, consistent.

Last year, on december 13, 2024, the office of personnel management (opm) issued a notice that added 33,000 more federal employees into the locality pay system. Unless congress decides to enact a different federal pay plan for 2025, biden’s planned 2% raise will take effect once he signs an executive order — something that usually happens each december.