Fws Pay Scale Chart 2022 (2024)

FAQs

What is the WG pay increase for 2024? ›

As the end of 2023 rapidly approaches, millions of government workers wonder what the federal pay raise will be for 2024. The federal pay raise in 2024 will likely be 5.2% for most government workers. However, certain contingencies may make it higher or lower.

Under the FWS, your employer bases your pay on what private industry is paying for comparable levels of work in your local wage area. Employees are paid the full prevailing rate at step 2 of each grade level. Step 5, the highest step in the FWS, is 12 percent above the prevailing rate of pay.

Description. Each General Schedule (GS) grade has 10 steps. Within-grade increases (WGIs) or step increases are periodic increases in a GS employee's rate of basic pay from one step of the grade of his or her position to the next higher step of that grade.

The General Schedule (GS) and Wage Grade (WG) pay scales represent distinct federal pay systems that determine salaries for different categories of civilian government employees. GS applies to white-collar workers, while WG applies to blue-collar employees. GS pay scale has 15 grades and 10 steps within each grade.

Full-time WG and WL employees may advance to the second step after 26 weeks; advance to the third step after 78 weeks; and advance to the fourth step after 104 weeks; and advance to the fifth step after 104 weeks.

Workers are poised to get smaller raises in 2024 — and their annual pay bumps are unlikely to increase again anytime soon amid a cooler job market, labor experts said. U.S. companies plan to give salary increases of 4%, on average, this year, down from 4.4% in 2023, according to a survey by Willis Towers Watson.

LOCALITY PAY ENTITLEMENTS UNDER GRADE RETENTION AND PAY RETENTION: An employee on grade retention retaining a GS grade is entitled to locality pay. An employee on grade retention retaining an FWS grade is not entitled to locality pay. An employee on pay retention in an FWS position is not entitled to locality pay.

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WG Pay Schedules

The Department of Defense (DOD) is the lead agency responsible for conducting Federal Wage System (FWS) wage surveys and issuing wage schedules. DOD's Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service maintains a website with all FWS wage schedules.

The Government's Personnel Classification System includes Wage Grade occupations grouped into families of like jobs. The 36 occupational families range from WG-2500 to WG-9000.

How long does it take to get to WG step 5? ›

To steps 2, 3, or 4 takes 52 weeks or 260 Intermittent days at the next lower step. Leave Without Pay in excess of one pay period extends the waiting period for full- and part-time employees. To steps 5, 6, or 7 takes 104 weeks or 520 Intermittent days at the next lower step.

As of Aug 10, 2024, the average hourly pay for a Wg in California is $18.07 an hour. While ZipRecruiter is seeing salaries as high as $25.38 and as low as $13.52, the majority of Wg salaries currently range between $17.07 (25th percentile) to $20.87 (75th percentile) in California.

Under the government pay system, it can be difficult to negotiate a higher GS level—as the pay grades are called under the government's General Schedule—than the one listed in the job description. But each grade has 10 steps that come with a higher salary and career advancement, and those step levels are more flexible.

The GS-1 through GS-7 range generally marks entry-level positions, while mid-level positions are in the GS-8 to GS-12 range and top-level positions (senior managers, high-level technical specialists, or physicians) are in the GS-13 to GS-15 range.

After careful study and evaluation of Servicewide fact-finding reviews, the results confirmed that the appropriate grade for full performance, at its lowest level, is GS-11 for resources management.

How much does a Wg make in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma? As of Aug 17, 2024, the average hourly pay for a Wg in Oklahoma City is $16.79 an hour.

Due to the enactment of Senate Bill (SB) 3, the California minimum wage increased to $16.00 per hour, effective January 1, 2024, for all employers. As a result, a number of regional center vendors may be eligible for a rate adjustment in order to pay employees the new minimum wage.

The minimum increase will be $1,000. The increase is calculated from an employee's base rate of pay as of June 30, 2024. A message from Human Resources to Deans, Directors, and Department Heads will follow, outlining eligibility criteria.

Special Rate Employees: Most special rate employees will receive the base increase of 4.7% on their special pay rates immediately plus 0.5% in locality pay.