Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
Signed December 31, 2002·George W. Bush·68 FR 1133
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Sets adjusted rates of basic pay for federal employees under various statutory pay systems, including the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, and schedules for the Veterans Health Administration, the Senior Executive Service, the Executive Schedule, the Vice President and Congress, federal justices and judges, uniformed services members and cadets or midshipmen, and administrative law judges. Also directs locality-based pay adjustments under sections 5304 and 5304a of Title 5, and instructs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement these payments and publish notice in the Federal Register. Specifies effective dates: the uniformed services pay schedule takes effect January 1, 2003, and all other schedules take effect at the start of the first pay period on or after that date. Supersedes Executive Order 13249 of December 28, 2001. The specific pay rates are set out in schedules attached to the order.
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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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Superseded by: EO 13322, December 30, 2003
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Executive Order 13282 of December 31, 2002
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. 5311-5318) 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), and section 140 of Public Law 97-92)
at Schedule 7.
Sec. 4. Uniformed Services. Pursuant to section 601(a)-
(b) of Public Law 107-314, 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, 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, 2003. The other schedules contained herein
are effective on the first day of the first applicable
pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2003.
Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13249
of December 28, 2001, is superseded.
(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 31, 2002.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 31, 2002. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.