Schedule an office visit. Call your doctor if your back pain hasn't improved after a week of home treatment or if your back pain: Is constant or intense, especially at night or when you lie down. Spreads down one or both legs, especially if the pain extends below your knee. Causes weakness, numbness or tingling in one or both legs.
It ranges from 91,000 to about 118,000 and higher and is based on how longthey have been a GS-15 and where they live. Thus, a GS-15 at step 1 makes about 91,000 per year, adjusted for locality (where they live) this could be higher. A step is added every year within grade if the employee has satisfactory employment. There are other ways to boost pay and change it, but this is the basic.
In terms of salary difference, each step is worth about 3% of the federal employee's salary. Below is a chart of the 2017 GS Pay Scale step and grade of base pay. Go here for a complete list of all current OPM pay scale tables. NOTE: The 2017 GS Pay Scale has been set by President Obama to be an average increase of 2.1%.