myFSpal Foreign Service Salary Calculator

ℹ️ How to use this calculator
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Set your profileSelect your grade, step, and family size. Enable any allowances that apply — LEAP, SIP, SMA, shift work, etc.
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Add posts to compareSearch for overseas posts or U.S. domestic localities and add up to 10 at once. Results update instantly.
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Estimate take-home payEnable Detailed Deductions to factor in federal/state taxes, FEHB premiums, and TSP contributions.

👔 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), and SMA.

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Your Profile
2026 Base Salary --
Premium Pay & Allowances
i Add LEAP, SIP, SMA, shift work, overtime, and other allowances.
Includes pay supplements and allowances you may receive on top of base salary — such as Law Enforcement Availability Pay (LEAP) for Special Agents, Skills Incentive Pay (SIP) for cyber and technical specialists, Physicians Comparability Allowance (PCA), OMS Communications Differential, Separate Maintenance Allowance (SMA) for families not co-located at post, and estimated overtime, night differential, and Sunday premium pay.
Enables LEAP (25%) and the 3.8% Special Agent pay increase.
For OMS personnel at overseas posts with limited IT infrastructure.
Shift Work & Overtime Estimates (Bi-weekly)
i Enable if family members are maintained away from your overseas post. This will adjust COLA calculations.
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
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Estimate Take-Home Pay (Optional)
i Enable to estimate net (take-home) pay after taxes and deductions.
Self+Family and Self-Only plans have different premiums. Select "Other" to enter your exact amount.
⚠️ Contribution exceeds the annual limit.
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), SIP/Cyber SIP, Title 5 Premium Pay (OT, night, Sunday)

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