2024 Pay Scale Dod Employees. Civilian federal employees are officially set to receive a sizeable pay raise in 2024 after president joe biden signed an executive order implementing the increases on thursday. Over time, after years of pay raises for most gs employees, coupled with no or reduced raises for others, the problem of pay compression is getting worse.
President biden has officially recommended a 5.2% federal pay raise for most civilian employees in 2024, including a 0.5% locality pay adjustment. The federal governmentโs general schedule (gs) pay system covers most employees and is divided into 15 grades, each of which has 10 steps.