Foreign Service Salaries

For the current FS pay schedule, click here.

Foreign Service Officers

  • SOP 134A4: Salary Standards for Entry-Level Foreign Service Officer Career Candidates effective February 28, 2022. (This SOP replaces and supersedes SOP 104A dated 1/29/03 and all previous versions, as well as replaces and supersedes SOP 134A3 dated 7/16/15 and all previous versions.)

Foreign Service Specialists

  • SOP 134B3: Salary Standards for Entry-Level Foreign Service Specialist Career Candidates, with the exception of Diplomatic Security Special Agent Candidates, effective February 28, 2022.  (This SOP replaces and supersedes SOP 115A dated November 3, 2006, and all previous versions of SOP 134B.)
  • SOP 134C2: Salary Standards for Entry-Level Diplomatic Security Special Agent Candidates, effective February 28, 2022.  (This SOP replaces and supersedes all prior version of SOP 134C.)

Salary Review Procedures

  • SOP 134D4: Salary Review Procedures for Foreign Service Entry-Level Officer Career Candidates, Specialist Career Candidates, and Consular Professional Candidates, updated February 17, 2023.  (This SOP replaces and supersedes SOP No. 99 dated 11/01/00 and all previous versions of SOP 134D.)

Salary Standards for Limited Non-Career Appointment Foreign Service Consular Adjudicators

  • 134E3: Salary Standards for Limited Non-Career Appointment Foreign Service Consular Fellows (Consular Adjudicators), effective March 18, 2022
    (This SOP replaces and supersedes all previous versions of SOP 134E.)
  • 134F3: Salary Standards for Consular Affairs Appointment Eligible Family Members (CA-AEFMs), effective March 18, 2022
    (This SOP replaces and supersedes all previous versions of SOP 134F.)

Entry On Duty Deferment (all FS candidates)

  • SOP 107F: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Notice No. 107F. This SOP replaces and supersedes SOP 49, 11/1/91, and all amended versions; and all prior versions of SOP 107, effective January 7, 2022.