Federal employees working in six areas of the U.S. may become part of the locality pay rate definitions starting in January 2019, FederalNewsRadio.com reported yesterday.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Federal Salary Council are considering the following locality pay areas for 2019:
- Birmingham, Alabama *
- Omaha, Nebraska
- Corpus Christi, Texas
- San Antonio, Texas *
- Virginia Beach/Norfolk, Virginia *
- Burlington, Vermont *
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The President’s Pay Agent (a group consisting of the OPM director, Labor secretary, and the Office of Management and Budget director) previously approved four of the six areas (marked with * above) and will need to get approval for Omaha and Corpus Christi. OPM believes it may be able to combine all six areas through a single rulemaking process.
2018 GS Locality Areas
Below is a list of the GS locality pay areas applicable in January 2018 and the locations composing them:
| Alaska
Albany-Schenectady, NY Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Las Vegas, NM Atlanta–Athens-Clarke County–Sandy Springs, GA-AL Austin-Round Rock, TX Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT-ME Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI Cincinnati-Wilmington-Maysville, OH-KY-IN Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH Colorado Springs, CO Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK Davenport-Moline, IA-IL Dayton-Springfield-Sidney, OH Denver-Aurora, CO Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor, MI Harrisburg-Lebanon, PA Hartford-West Hartford, CT-MA Hawaii Houston-The Woodlands, TX Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville, AL Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie, IN |
Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS
Laredo, TX Las Vegas-Henderson, NV-AZ Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie, FL Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, PA-OH-WV Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Richmond, VA Sacramento-Roseville, CA-NV San Diego-Carlsbad, CA San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA Seattle-Tacoma, WA St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL Tucson-Nogales, AZ Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Rest of US |