{"id":11248,"date":"2018-12-07T16:39:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/12\/07\/opm-adds-six-new-locations-for-2019-pay-adjustments\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:34:13","slug":"opm-adds-six-new-locations-for-2019-pay-adjustments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/pay-benefits\/2018\/12\/07\/opm-adds-six-new-locations-for-2019-pay-adjustments\/","title":{"rendered":"OPM adds six new locations for 2019 pay adjustments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Office of Personnel Management announced in a rule Dec. 7 that it had added six parts of the country to its list of locality pay areas and expanded two areas already receiving locality pay for the 2019 pay period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locality pay is provided to federal employees that live in disproportionately expensive areas of the country. As a result, an employee living in an expensive area and at a particular pay grade would make slightly more than someone at the same pay grade living in a cheaper part of the country, to make up the cost-of-living difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The six new locality pay areas are: Birmingham-Hoover-Talladega, Alabama; Burlington-South Burlington, Vermont.; Corpus Christi-Kingsville-Alice, Texas; Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, Nebraska and Iowa; San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, Texas; and Virginia Beach-Norfolk, Virginia and North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new areas will impact approximately 70,000 General Schedule employees, beginning Jan. 1, 2019, with the largest group of impacted employees in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk area.<\/p>\n\n\n\t