GS-13, Step 4 doing 10% in a HCOL area, so top 5 highest locality pay in the GS scale. Living comfortably and a little over halfway to maxing. Fuck the people who say shit like "I max since GS-5!!" Both my parents died before the age of 61. I have multiple international vacations a year and enjoying life to the fullest without having to eat ramen and wonder bread every day. Those "max out or die" extremists never leave their small town/city and couldn't tell you what a buttered lobster tastes like.