For General Schedule employees

Federal pay.
Made simple.

GS Paid turns the official OPM pay tables into a clear picture of your salary — what you earn now, what your next step increase pays, and where your career can go. Real 2026 locality rates for all 58 pay areas.

Requires iOS 17 or later. Free to use — no account, no sign-up.

GS Paid running on iPhone: a GS-9 Step 1 salary of $72,737 per year, with monthly and biweekly amounts, a New York-Newark locality badge, and a countdown to the next payday.

What's inside

Everything your pay stub doesn't tell you

Your grade and step decide your salary, but the tables that turn them into a number are scattered across PDFs. GS Paid puts them in one place and does the math the way OPM does it.

Your pay at a glance

Annual, monthly, and biweekly together, with your grade, step, and locality — plus a countdown to your next payday and pay stub.

Pay Calculator

Any grade, step, and locality area, with the base rate and the locality adjustment shown separately.

Find your locality rate

Search by ZIP code or browse the map. OPM defines locality areas by county, so GS Paid resolves the county behind your ZIP.

Step increases

Your full within-grade step ladder — what every step of your grade pays, and how far it is to the top.

Promotion estimate

Where the two-step rule actually lands you. A promotion doesn't restart you at step 1, and most calculators get this wrong.

Retirement & leave

FERS eligibility and annuity estimates, plus annual and sick leave accrual with a use-or-lose projection.

Pricing

Free to use. Pro when you're planning ahead.

Everything you need to look up your pay is free, forever. Pro adds the forward-looking tools — projections, retirement, take-home modeling, and Home Screen widgets.

Free

$0 — no account required

  • Pay dashboard — annual, monthly, biweekly
  • Payday countdown and pay stub dates
  • Pay Calculator for any grade and step
  • Pay Tables for 2024, 2025, and 2026
  • Locality Rates — map, search, favorites
  • Step Increases — the full step ladder

GS Paid Pro Pro

$2.99 / month · $29.99 / year

  • Career Progression — higher grades, ladder paths, projected timeline
  • Promotion Estimate — the two-step rule, done right
  • Take-Home Pay — deductions in the correct order
  • Retirement — FERS eligibility and annuity estimate
  • Compare, Pay History, and Leave Tracker
  • Home Screen widgets and step-increase reminders

Accuracy

Built from the regulations, not from guesswork

A wrong number here is a wrong salary. Every figure comes from OPM's published tables, and the features that encode federal rules were built from the source text.

Pay tables

Transcribed directly from OPM's published salary tables for 2024, 2025, and 2026 — already locality-adjusted and capped at the EX-IV limit, rather than recalculated with a formula that rounds differently.

Promotion rule

The two-step rule follows the standard method in 5 CFR 531.214, comparing payable (locality-adjusted) rates — which matters at GS-14 and GS-15, where the pay cap flattens the top steps.

Leave accrual

Annual and sick leave follow 5 U.S.C. 6303–6307, including the service-tier accrual rates and the 240/360/720-hour carryover ceilings.

Retirement

The FERS basic annuity formula and eligibility rules follow 5 CFR 842, including the 1.1% multiplier at age 62 with 20 years of service.

Locality areas

OPM defines locality pay areas by county, not by ZIP code. GS Paid resolves your ZIP to its county and matches that — the same way OPM does.

Privacy

No account. No tracking. No servers.

Your salary is nobody else's business — including ours. GS Paid has no backend, so there is nowhere for your information to be sent.

Nothing to sign up for

There is no account, no email, and no password. Open the app and it works.

Your data stays yours

What you enter is stored on your device and syncs privately through your own iCloud account. We have no access to it.

No analytics, no ads

The app contains no tracking or advertising software of any kind, and never sells or shares your information.

Support

Questions, bug reports, or a number that looks wrong?

Email us and a real person will read it. If something in the app doesn't match your LES, tell us your grade, step, and locality area and we'll look into it.

Get in touch

We aim to reply within two business days.

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