2025 Gs Pay Scale Raise Announcement. The 2025 general schedule (gs) pay scale is based on the 2025 federal pay raise. The 2025 federal employee pay raise averaging 2 percent will result in increasing the pay caps that apply to senior positions and to many in the upper ranks of the gs.
Employees see the impact of the raise with the pay distribution covering that pay period, which they typically receive about a week to 10 days later—meaning early february, in this case. The 2025 white house budget released this week is proposing 2% federal pay raise for general schedule (gs) employees.