myFSpal Foreign Service Salary Calculator

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

2026 Base Salary --
Other Allowances
i Some allowances are global, while some are post-specific. Post-specific allowances can be enabled on the post tiles below.
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.
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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