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General Schedule pay tables from 1949 to 1993

Here are General Schedule pay tables from 1949 to 1993. Tables are listed only for years where pay increases were authorized. Note that there were interim geographic adjustments in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco starting in 1991 and geographic pay for law enforcement officers in eight metropolitan areas starting in 1992, and that the locality pay program began in 1994.

Year	File Types
1949 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1951 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1954 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1955 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1956 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1958 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1960 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1962 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1964 Jan GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1964 July GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1965 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1966 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1967 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1968 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1969 July GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1969 Dec GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1971 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1972 Jan GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1972 Oct GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1973 GS	HTML	PDF [32]

Year	File Types
1974 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1975 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1976 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1977 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1978 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1979 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1980 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1981 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1982 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1984 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1985 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1987 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1988 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1989 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1990 Jan GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1990 Feb GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1991 GS	HTML	PDF [32]
1992 GS	HTML	PDF [28]
1993 GS	HTML	PDF [28]

The Office of Personnel Management provides policy leadership and expertise on a variety of Governmentwide pay programs for Federal employees, including the General Schedule (GS), Law Enforcement Officer Pay Schedules, and the Federal Wage System (FWS).

For more information on the General Schedule and Law Enforcement Officer pay tables, agencies may email at pay-performance-policy@opm.gov.

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