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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Current controller.
Simply, they looked at different regions and decided how much more expensive it is to live there. They then add that percentage to your base.
So if the base pay is $100k, with 20% locality, you’d be making $120k.
To further the ATC specific example, theres also something called controller incentive pay, so if you go to a “less desirable” location you can get an extra 5-10%.
Then theres premium pay, nights, weekends, holidays.
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