FY2026 · Federal Wage System
Trades pay (wage grade) by area
Federal trades and craft jobs (mechanics, electricians, maintenance, warehouse) are paid by the hour on local wage schedules set by surveys of local private-sector pay. A WG-10 step 2 earns from $26.01 to $41.71 an hour, depending on the area. Leaders (WL) and supervisors (WS) have their own schedules.
Alabama
- Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega WG-10 $30.21/hr
- Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega WG-10 $30.21/hr
- Dothan WG-10 $28.28/hr
- Huntsville WG-10 $30.27/hr
- Huntsville WG-10 $29.88/hr
- Montgomery-Selma WG-10 $26.96/hr
Arizona
Arkansas
- Little Rock WG-10 $27.95/hr
California
- Fresno WG-10 $29.68/hr
- Los Angeles WG-10 $35.30/hr
- Sacramento WG-10 $35.61/hr
- Sacramento WG-10 $34.29/hr
- San Diego WG-10 $33.22/hr
- San Diego WG-10 $31.99/hr
- San Diego WG-10 $32.28/hr
- San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland WG-10 $41.14/hr
- San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland WG-10 $38.58/hr
Colorado
Connecticut
- New Haven-Hartford WG-10 $31.77/hr
- New Haven-Hartford WG-10 $32.47/hr
- New Haven-Hartford WG-10 $31.77/hr
District of Columbia
- Washington-Baltimore-Arlington WG-10 $36.18/hr
- Washington-Baltimore-Arlington WG-10 $36.09/hr
Florida
- Cocoa Beach WG-10 $32.31/hr
- Jacksonville WG-10 $29.66/hr
- Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale WG-10 $32.04/hr
- Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale WG-10 $31.67/hr
- Panama City WG-10 $29.24/hr
- Pensacola WG-10 $34.51/hr
- Tampa-St Petersburg WG-10 $29.91/hr
Georgia
Idaho
- Boise WG-10 $32.11/hr
Illinois
- Bloomington-Pontiac WG-10 $31.12/hr
- Chicago-Naperville WG-10 $35.15/hr
- Chicago-Naperville WG-10 $34.85/hr
Indiana
- Evansville-Henderson WG-10 $32.07/hr
- Fort Wayne-Marion WG-10 $33.14/hr
- Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie WG-10 $35.61/hr
- Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie WG-10 $35.57/hr
Iowa
- Cedar Rapids-Iowa City WG-10 $32.99/hr
- Cedar Rapids-Iowa City WG-10 $33.02/hr
- Davenport-Moline WG-10 $33.13/hr
- Davenport-Moline WG-10 $33.42/hr
- Des Moines WG-10 $31.13/hr
- Des Moines WG-10 $31.30/hr
Kansas
Kentucky
- Lexington WG-10 $30.32/hr
- Lexington WG-10 $30.30/hr
- Louisville WG-10 $32.80/hr
Louisiana
- Lake Charles-Alexandria WG-10 $37.64/hr
- New Orleans WG-10 $29.23/hr
- Shreveport WG-10 $31.79/hr
Maine
- Augusta WG-10 $27.22/hr
Massachusetts
- Boston-Worcester-Providence WG-10 $32.41/hr
- Boston-Worcester-Providence WG-10 $32.41/hr
Michigan
- Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor WG-10 $38.29/hr
- Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor WG-10 $37.93/hr
Minnesota
- Duluth WG-10 $34.33/hr
- Minneapolis-St Paul WG-10 $35.69/hr
- Minneapolis-St Paul WG-10 $34.88/hr
Mississippi
Missouri
- Kansas City WG-10 $36.47/hr
- Kansas City WG-10 $36.66/hr
- St. Louis WG-10 $35.16/hr
- St. Louis WG-10 $35.31/hr
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico
- Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos WG-10 $33.02/hr
- Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos WG-10 $33.02/hr
New York
- Albany-Schenectady WG-10 $33.68/hr
- Albany-Schenectady WG-10 $33.96/hr
- Buffalo WG-10 $34.68/hr
- Buffalo WG-10 $34.43/hr
- New York-Newark WG-10 $36.01/hr
- Rochester WG-10 $30.88/hr
- Rochester WG-10 $31.09/hr
- Syracuse-Utica-Rome WG-10 $33.25/hr
North Carolina
- Asheville WG-10 $28.19/hr
- Charlotte-Concord WG-10 $28.92/hr
- Charlotte-Concord WG-10 $28.94/hr
Ohio
- Cincinnati WG-10 $32.87/hr
- Cleveland-Akron-Canton WG-10 $35.93/hr
- Cleveland-Akron-Canton WG-10 $35.76/hr
- Cleveland-Akron-Canton WG-10 $35.93/hr
- Columbus-Marion-Zanesville WG-10 $32.67/hr
- Columbus-Marion-Zanesville WG-10 $32.15/hr
- Dayton WG-10 $34.15/hr
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma City WG-10 $30.56/hr
- Tulsa WG-10 $32.07/hr
Oregon
- Portland-Vancouver-Salem WG-10 $33.95/hr
- Portland-Vancouver-Salem WG-10 $33.04/hr
Other
- Central and Northern Maine WG-10 $29.95/hr
- Central North Carolina WG-10 $29.22/hr
- Central North Carolina WG-10 $29.72/hr
- Eastern South Dakota WG-10 $28.17/hr
- Eastern Tennessee WG-10 $26.70/hr
- Montana WG-10 $34.12/hr
- North Dakota WG-10 $32.59/hr
- Northeastern Arizona WG-10 $34.77/hr
- Northern Mississippi WG-10 $26.01/hr
- Northern New York WG-10 $28.64/hr
- Northern New York WG-10 $28.94/hr
- Northwestern Michigan WG-10 $31.53/hr
- Southeastern North Carolina WG-10 $33.89/hr
- Southeastern Washington-Eastern Oregon WG-10 $34.76/hr
- Southern Colorado WG-10 $28.25/hr
- Southern Colorado WG-10 $28.27/hr
- Southern Missouri WG-10 $28.28/hr
- Southwestern Michigan WG-10 $31.95/hr
- Southwestern Oregon WG-10 $32.05/hr
- Southwestern Wisconsin WG-10 $30.22/hr
- State of Alaska WG-10 $41.71/hr
- State of Alaska WG-10 $41.71/hr
- State of Hawaii WG-10 $40.07/hr
- Utah WG-10 $32.23/hr
- West Virginia WG-10 $32.23/hr
- Western Texas WG-10 $28.27/hr
- Wichita Falls, TX-Southwestern Oklahoma WG-10 $28.81/hr
- Wyoming WG-10 $31.36/hr
Pennsylvania
- Harrisburg-York-Lebanon WG-10 $30.07/hr
- Harrisburg-York-Lebanon WG-10 $32.26/hr
- Harrisburg-York-Lebanon WG-10 $30.07/hr
- Philadelphia-Reading-Camden WG-10 $33.11/hr
- Pittsburgh WG-10 $33.03/hr
- Pittsburgh WG-10 $32.73/hr
- Pittsburgh WG-10 $32.73/hr
- Scranton-Wilkes Barre WG-10 $28.37/hr
South Carolina
- Charleston WG-10 $29.58/hr
- Columbia WG-10 $29.61/hr
Tennessee
Texas
- Austin WG-10 $29.56/hr
- Austin WG-10 $29.66/hr
- Corpus Christi-Kingsville-Alice WG-10 $35.27/hr
- Corpus Christi-Kingsville-Alice WG-10 $35.35/hr
- Dallas-Fort Worth WG-10 $33.02/hr
- Dallas-Fort Worth WG-10 $32.81/hr
- El Paso WG-10 $30.19/hr
- Houston-Galveston-Texas City WG-10 $34.61/hr
- Houston-Galveston-Texas City WG-10 $34.28/hr
- San Antonio WG-10 $28.64/hr
- San Antonio WG-10 $28.87/hr
- San Antonio WG-10 $28.64/hr
- Texarkana WG-10 $29.03/hr
- Waco WG-10 $28.41/hr
Virginia
- Richmond WG-10 $33.00/hr
- Richmond WG-10 $32.88/hr
- Roanoke WG-10 $28.31/hr
- Virginia Beach-Chesapeake WG-10 $29.36/hr
- Virginia Beach-Chesapeake WG-10 $29.45/hr
- Virginia Beach-Chesapeake WG-10 $29.38/hr
Washington
- Seattle-Everett WG-10 $37.52/hr
- Spokane WG-10 $31.34/hr
- Spokane WG-10 $31.40/hr
Wisconsin
- Madison WG-10 $30.44/hr
- Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha WG-10 $34.48/hr
- Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha WG-10 $34.11/hr
FY2026 schedules. Each wage area sets its own effective date. Source: DoD Wage and Salary Division (DCPAS).