FederalPay.org provides a searchable database of U.S. federal government employees.

The Federal Wage System (FWS) is a pay scale system that applies to blue-collar Federal government workers. The Office of Personnel Management, with the help of local labor unions, establishes hourly FWS pay tables for every major Government facility in the United States.

This table lists the fifteen departments by total yearly outlay in billions (from highest to lowest), as well as number of employees and the year in which the department was established. Click on any department for more details.

This table shows the base pay amounts for all General Schedule employees based on the 2025 GS Pay Scale, as published by the Office of Personnel Management. General Schedule base …

Each Locality Area has a Locality Pay Adjustment percentage, updated yearly, which specifies how much over the GS Base Pay government employees working within that locality will earn. …

There were 193,700 Wage Grade workers in 2020 with 2,715 working overseas and in the U.S. Territories. The largest employers include the Department of Navy hiring 45,412 followed by the Department of the Army with 40,439, and the Department of the Air Force with 49,167.

Each year congress decides whether or not to raise the General Schedule (GS) pay scale, which applies to nearly 3 million federal employees across the 15 Federal Departments and numerous independent agencies.

You can now use our Federal Employee Lookup tool to find information on public servants, as well as access a wide variety of statistics and information on the Federal government’s payroll expenditures.

General Schedule (GS), Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) Schedule, and Federal Wage Schedule (FWS) pay employees more based on how long they have been employed by the federal government.

The General Schedule (GS) payscale is the federal government payscale used to determine the salaries of over 70% of federal civilian employees. Under the GS payscale, an employee's …