Context: I’m a US citizen and our government is going to hire and train the next batch of Air Traffic Controllers. When explaining the process and what the pay would be like etc, the site mentions “Locality Pay.” I have quite literally never heard of the term before, and when I look it up everything just skips straight to “How does it work?” But what is it???
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Government jobs will have a base level of pay that everyone is guaranteed to get. But because government work is needed all over the country, they need to entice people who live in more expensive areas to take government jobs. This is why in more expensive areas they will increase your pay by a certain amount to accommodate for the higher cost of living.
For example I am a government employee living in NY. The base pay for my job is 42k, everyone doing the same job gets at least this much. The locality adjustment is 15.6k. So my salary totals to 57.6k a year. This shows that locality pay can have quite a large impact on your total pay.
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