Cost-Of-Living Increase 2025 Private Sector. Find out what 2025 holds for. The median expected basic pay increase in the private sector has fallen from 5% to 4% since the last quarter while pay expectations in the public sector have fallen further from.
This table shows the expected base pay rates for all general schedule (gs) positions in 2025. Employers may be running out of steam on their ability to increase pay to attract new hires, but more than a third (36%) said they have increased wages in the past 12 months.