President Barack Obama signed an executive order Dec. 23 granting federal civilian employees a 2 percent raise and military members a 3.4 percent raise beginning in January.

For civilians, the pay raise contains a 1.5 percent base pay raise and an average 0.5 percent locality pay raise. A GS-10's base pay will range from $45,771 to $59,505, while a GS-15's base pay will range from $99,628 to $129,517.

Members of the Senior Executive Service at agencies with a certified SES performance appraisal system will make a minimum of $119,554 and a maximum of $179,700. For senior executives at agencies without the performance system, pay will range from $119,554 to $166,300.

Federal employees in the San Francisco area will receive the highest locality pay rate, at 35.19 percent. Neither the White House nor Office of Personnel Management released salary figures incorporating both base pay and locality pay.

Other top locality pay rates:

• 28.72 percent for New York.

• 28.71 percent for Houston.

• 27.16 percent for Los Angeles.

• 25.10 percent for Chicago.

• 24.22 percent for the Washington-Baltimore area.

2010 will be only the fifth time in three decades that federal pay raises were lower than military raises. The other years were 1984, 1994, 1995 and 2002.

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