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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Locality pay is an adjustment to your base pay based on the area of the country where you work. Some areas are more expensive to live in, San Francisco vs Independence IA. They have a locality pay to increase your total compensation without adjusting your base pay.
This prevents someone from gaming the system by working in a high cost of living area for a few years to get a high pay rate and then moving to a low cost of living area and expecting to keep that high pay. Additionally some other benefits can be based off of your base pay and not your total pay, like retirement.
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