Federal Workers’ 2019 Pay Raise Varies From 1.66 to 2.27 Percent

Pay increases for federal employees in 2019 will range from a high of 2.27 percent for those in the Washington-Baltimore “locality pay area” to a low of 1.66 percent for employees not in a designated pay area, under an executive order issued March 28 by President Donald Trump.

Pay tables posted by the Office of Personnel Management show how the government will implement the order, which calls for a 1.9 percent average increase for federal workers to be divided into a 1.4 percent across-the-board pay raise for all eligible federal workers and a 0.5 percent average “locality” increase that ...