Executive & Senior Level Pay Tables

Executive Schedule - ES Level 2 Pay

Pay Grade:

ES-2

Yearly Pay:

$221,900

Monthly Pay:

$18,492

Hourly Pay:

$106

Education Req's:

Ph.D.

The Executive Schedule (ES) sets the yearly salaries for top government officials, including the leaders and senior personnel in over 75 Federal government agencies.

Level II positions are generally deputy positions under the secretary of the a major federal departments or the head of an agency.

Since 2019, the yearly pay for an ES Level 2 official has been raised 13.34% from $192,300 per year to $221,900 per year.

For more information, visit the 2024 Senior Executive Service payscale page.

Year	Salary	Year	Salary	Year	Salary	Year	Salary	Year	Salary
2024	$221,900	2023	$212,100	2022	$203,700	2021	$199,300	2020	$197,300
2019	$192,300	2018	$189,600	2017	$187,000	2016	$185,100	2015	$183,300

Who gets paid at ES Level 2?

Here's a list of 48 high-level federal positions that are classified under Level 2 of the Executive Schedule. For more details, click on any position title to view the applicable Wikipedia page (links open in new window).

Deputy Secretary of Agriculture	Deputy Secretary of Defense
Secretary of the Army	Secretary of the Navy
Secretary of the Air Force	Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
Deputy Secretary of Education	Deputy Secretary of Energy
Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Chief Performance Officer of the United Statesand Deputy OMB Director for Management
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers	Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy	Director of the Office of White House Mail and Messenger Operations
Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services	Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security
Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Management	Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
Director of the National Counterterrorism Center	Director of the National Counterproliferation Center
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency	Deputy Secretary of the Interior
Deputy Attorney General	Deputy Secretary of Labor
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration	Deputy Secretary of State
Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources	Deputy Secretary of Transportation
Under Secretary of Transportation for Security	Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration	Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury	Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development
Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency
Deputy Commissioner of the Social Security Administration	Administrator of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation	Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Director of the National Science Foundation	Independent Members and chairman of the Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board
Members of the Board of governors of the Federal Reserve System	Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection

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