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2026 North Carolina Federal Wage System Pay Tables

Browse the published 2026 regular-area Federal Wage System schedules for North Carolina. Each wage-area page shows the official WG worker rates, WL leader rates, WS supervisory rates, county coverage, and the linked GS locality code when DCPAS provides one.

3 2026 wage-area variants
38 covered counties
2 wage-area families

How FWS pay works in North Carolina

The Federal Wage System is the hourly pay system used for many federal trade, craft, and labor jobs. Unlike the salaried General Schedule pay tables, FWS pay is published as local hourly wage schedules with separate WG worker, WL leader, and WS supervisory rates.

This page lists the official regular-area schedules that DCPAS publishes for North Carolina in 2026. Open the wage area that matches your county to see the full hourly tables, covered counties, official PDF, and related GS locality context. If you want a faster lookup path, use the FWS calculator.

Major federal sites behind these pay tables

OPM names one federal site for each wage area. That site is the main federal location used to anchor that pay table. If you know the base, depot, arsenal, or medical center name but not the wage-area name, these pages give you another path into the right pay table.

MCIE, Cherry Point

Used by OPM for the Southeastern North Carolina wage area.

1 pay table in 2026 · survey month January

VA Medical Center, Salisbury

Used by OPM for the Charlotte wage area.

2 pay tables in 2026 · survey month August
Why some wage areas appear more than once. DCPAS can publish more than one schedule variant for the same wage area when counties inside that area line up with different GS locality alignments. That is why you may see one schedule marked Rest of U.S. (RUS) and another tied to a named GS locality code.

Wage areas in North Carolina

Some wage areas split into more than one official schedule variant because different counties inside the same broader wage area align to different GS locality codes. For example, RUS means Rest of U.S. , while a named code such as CT points to a GS locality like Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC . Use the county count and locality label to pick the right page.

Charlotte-Concord, North Carolina

2 published schedule variants in the 2026 archive for this wage area.

Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC (CT) 18 counties WG top step $40.48/hr Rest of U.S. (RUS) 2 counties WG top step $40.46/hr

Southeastern North Carolina

1 published schedule variant in the 2026 archive for this wage area.

Rest of U.S. (RUS) 18 counties WG top step $48.27/hr
Use the FWS calculator