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VA Medical Center, Hines FWS pay tables for 2018

OPM uses VA Medical Center, Hines as the federal site for the Chicago Bloomington-Bedford- wage area in Illinois. Use this page to jump to the related Federal Wage System pay tables and matching General Schedule references for 2018.

Archive year. This is the 2018 host page for VA Medical Center, Hines. Latest available year: 2026.
Chicago Bloomington-Bedford- linked wage area
047 OPM wage area code
September survey month
$40.65 highest related WG top step in 2018

This page links a familiar federal site name to the wage area that sits behind the pay tables. It is a useful reference if you recognize the depot, base, arsenal, or medical center name more quickly than the wage-area name.

For this site, the published 2018 pay tables sit under the Chicago Bloomington-Bedford- wage area. Open the schedule variant that matches the county where the job is located.

Use this as a location shortcut. OPM uses VA Medical Center, Hines as a reference point for this wage area. The related pay tables can also cover jobs at other nearby federal worksites in the same wage area.

Related 2018 pay tables

1 published pay table currently connect to this federal site. Open the variant that matches your county and GS locality alignment.

Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI (CHI) 24 counties WG top step $40.65/hr

Related GS pay tables

Salaried white-collar federal jobs in the same labor market usually follow one of these General Schedule locality references. Open the matching GS table if you are comparing hourly FWS pay with salaried GS pay in the same area.

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