2025 Gs Pay Scale Raise Schedule. The end of the calendar year means possible general schedule (gs) pay scales changes for the federal workforce. Civilian government employees are paid either on the general schedule (gs) payscale, which applies to salaried employees, or the federal wage system (fws), which applies to hourly.

President biden signed an executive order approving a 5.2% average federal pay raise for. Each year during his term biden has proposed for the next year’s raise a figure generated by a federal pay law, linked to an employment cost index measure of private sector.