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The registerExecutive Order 13249
E.O.13249

Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

Signed December 28, 2001·George W. Bush·67 FR 639

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Sets updated federal pay rates across multiple government pay systems, effective either January 1, 2002, or the first pay period beginning on or after that date. It establishes new schedules for the General Schedule, the Foreign Service, the Veterans Health Administration, the Senior Executive Service, the Executive Schedule, the Vice President and Congress, federal justices and judges, uniformed service members, locality-based pay adjustments, and administrative law judges. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management is directed to implement the locality-based comparability payments and publish notice of them in the Federal Register. The order applies to federal civilian employees, military personnel, and certain elected and judicial officials, and it supersedes the prior pay-rate order, Executive Order 13182 of December 23, 2000.

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the laws cited herein, it is hereby ordered

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Supersedes: EO 13182, December 23, 2000

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Executive Order 13249 of December 28, 2001

Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the laws cited herein, it is hereby
ordered as follows:

Section 1. Statutory Pay Systems. The rates of basic
pay or salaries of the statutory pay systems (as
defined in 5 U.S.C. 5302(1)), as adjusted under 5
U.S.C. 5303(a), are set forth on the schedules attached
hereto and made a part hereof:

    (a) The General Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5332(a)) at
Schedule 1;
    (b) The Foreign Service Schedule (22 U.S.C. 3963)
at Schedule 2; and
    (c) The schedules for the Veterans Health
Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs
(38 U.S.C. 7306, 7404; section 301(a) of Public Law
102-40) at Schedule 3.

Sec. 2. Senior Executive Service. The rates of basic
pay for senior executives in the Senior Executive
Service, as adjusted under 5 U.S.C. 5382, are set forth
on Schedule 4 attached hereto and made a part hereof.

Sec. 3. Executive Salaries. The rates of basic pay or
salaries for the following offices and positions are
set forth on the schedules attached hereto and made a
part hereof:

    (a) The Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5312-5318) at
Schedule 5;
    (b) The Vice President (3 U.S.C. 104) and the
Congress (2 U.S.C. 31) at Schedule 6; and
    (c) Justices and judges (28 U.S.C. 5, 44(d), 135,
252, and 461(a)) at Schedule 7.

Sec. 4. Uniformed Services. Pursuant to section 601 of
S. 1438, the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2002 (which I signed into law on December
28, 2001), the rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C.
203(a)) for members of the uniformed services and the
rate of monthly cadet or midshipman pay (37 U.S.C.
203(c)) are set forth on Schedule 8 attached hereto and
made a part hereof.

Sec. 5. Locality-Based Comparability Payments. (a)
Pursuant to sections 5304 and 5304a of title 5, United
States Code, and in accordance with section 646(a) of
the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act,
2002, Public Law 107-67, locality-based comparability
payments shall be paid in accordance with Schedule 9
attached hereto and made a part hereof.

    (b) The Director of the Office of Personnel
Management shall take such actions as may be necessary
to implement these payments and to publish appropriate
notice of such payments in the Federal Register.

Sec. 6. Administrative Law Judges. The rates of basic
pay for administrative law judges, as adjusted under 5
U.S.C. 5372(b)(4), are set forth on Schedule 10
attached hereto and made a part hereof.

Sec. 7. Effective Dates. Schedule 8 is effective on
January 1, 2002. The other schedules contained herein
are effective on the first day of the first applicable
pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2002.

Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13182
of December 23, 2000, is superseded.

    (Presidential Sig.)B

THE WHITE HOUSE,

     December 28, 2001.

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