myFSpal Foreign Service Salary Calculator

Select your grade and step, add posts to compare, and enable allowances or deductions to estimate your pay.

i Enable if you're a domestic employee teleworking from an overseas location under a DETO arrangement. Uses DETO locality pay instead of overseas allowances.

🌐 DETO Mode Active

You're calculating pay for a Domestic Employee Teleworking Overseas arrangement. This mode compares:

Not eligible as DETO: COLA, Hardship, Danger Pay, SND, SMA, Language Incentive, OCP

Still eligible: LEAP (Special Agents), PCA (physicians), Title 5 Premium Pay (OT, night, Sunday)

👔 Senior Foreign Service Pay Mode

You're viewing estimates for SFS grades (OC, MC, CM, CA). Key differences from FS grades:

SFS may still receive: Danger Pay, Hardship Differential, COLA (overseas), SMA, and Performance Pay Awards.

2026 Base Salary --
Premium Pay & Other Allowances
i Add LEAP, SIP, shift work, overtime, and other allowances.
For qualifying Foreign Service Specialists and Untenured Generalists.
Enable for Special Agents receiving LEAP & 3.8% pay increase.
OMS personnel in overseas locations with limited IT presence (5%).
Shift Work & Overtime Estimates (Bi-weekly)
i Enable if family members are maintained away from your overseas post. This will adjust COLA.
i Enable to estimate net (take-home) pay after taxes and deductions.
⚠️ Contribution exceeds the annual limit.
About Language Incentive Pay (LIP)

Language Incentive Pay (LIP) may be available to employees proficient in certain languages. Eligibility depends on certified proficiency levels. The following languages are designated for incentive pay:

  • Arabic
  • Armenian
  • Azerbaijani
  • Bengali
  • Burmese
  • Cambodian-Khmer
  • Chinese (Cantonese)
  • Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Georgian
  • Hausa*
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Japanese
  • Kazakh
  • Kinyarwana/Rwanda
  • Kirghiz
  • Korean
  • Kurdish
  • Lao
  • Mongolian
  • Nepali/Nepalese
  • Pashto
  • Persian (Dari, Farsi, Tajiki)
  • Russian
  • Serbo-Croatian**
  • Tamil
  • Turkish
  • Turkmen
  • Ukrainian
  • Urdu
  • Uzbek
  • Vietnamese

*Eligible only for language-designated positions. **Includes Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian.
This calculator allows you to model the potential impact of LIP; actual eligibility must be certified.

Multi-Language Posts

At the following posts, proficiency in any of the listed languages can qualify you for LIP (though you may only be paid for one at a time):

  • Algiers, Almaty, Ashgabat, Baku, Beirut, Bishkek, Casablanca, Chennai, Chisinau, Dushanbe, Erbil, Guangzhou, Herat, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Jerusalem, Kabul, Kolkata, Kyiv, Mostar, New Delhi, Nouakchott, Peshawar, Podgorica, Pristina, Rabat, Sarajevo, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Tunis, Yerevan
Source: 3 FAH-1 H-3911 & 3 FAH-1 H-3913