Amendment to Executive Order 12293, the Foreign Service of the United States
Signed January 23, 2004·George W. Bush·69 FR 4217
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Amends Executive Order 12293 to revise the basic salary rates for the three salary classes of the Senior Foreign Service—Career Minister, Minister-Counselor, and Counselor—setting new pay ranges tied to percentages of Executive Schedule level III and GS-15 rates. The change follows adjustments to how members of the Senior Executive Service are paid under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004. It directs that when Senior Foreign Service members convert to the new pay ranges, they keep the rate of basic pay, including any locality-based comparability payment, they held immediately before conversion. The Secretary of State, or heads of other agencies using the Foreign Service personnel system, may later raise a member's pay if performance or contribution to the agency's mission warrants it and the member is otherwise eligible. The new rates take effect on the first day of the first pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2004.
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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 Foreign Service Act of 1980, as amended, and in order to adjust the basic salary rates for each class of the Senior Foreign Service in light of the changes made to the manner in which members of the Senior Executive Service will be paid pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 108-136), it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Amends: EO 12293, February 23, 1981 Revoked by: EO 13374, March 14, 2005
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Executive Order 13325 of January 23, 2004
Amendment to Executive Order 12293, the Foreign
Service of the United States
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the Foreign Service Act of 1980, as
amended, and in order to adjust the basic salary rates
for each class of the Senior Foreign Service in light
of the changes made to the manner in which members of
the Senior Executive Service will be paid pursuant to
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2004 (Public Law 108-136), it is hereby ordered as
follows:
Section 1. Section 4 of Executive Order 12293 of
February 23, 1981, as amended, is amended to read as
follows:
“Sec. 4. (a) In accord with Section 402 of the Act (22
U.S.C. 3962), there are established the following
salary classes with titles for the Senior Foreign
Service, at the following ranges of basic rates of pay.
(1)
Career Minister
Range from 94 percent of the rate payable to level III of the Executive
Schedule to 100 percent of the rate payable to level III of the Executive
Schedule.
(2)
Minister-Counselor
Range from 90 percent of the rate payable to level III of the Executive
Schedule to 100 percent of the rate payable to level III of the Executive
Schedule.
(3)
Counselor
Range from 120 percent of the rate payable to GS-15/Step 1 to 100 percent
of rate payable to level III of the Executive Schedule.
(b) Upon conversion to a rate of basic pay within
the range of rates established for the applicable
salary class by this section as of the first day of the
first applicable pay period beginning on or after
January 1, 2004, a member of the Senior Foreign Service
shall receive the rate of basic pay to which he or she
was entitled immediately before that date, including
any locality-based comparability payment authorized
under 5 U.S.C. 5304(h)(2)(C) that the member was
receiving immediately before that date. On the same
date, or on a later date specified by the Secretary of
State (or the heads of the other agencies that utilize
the Foreign Service personnel system (collectively the
“Secretary”)), the Secretary may increase the
member's rate of basic pay upon a determination that
the member's performance or contribution to the mission
of the agency so warrant and that the member is
otherwise eligible for such a pay adjustment under
Section 402 of the Foreign Service Act.”
Sec. 2. Effective Date. The salary rates contained
herein are effective on the first day of the first
applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1,
2004.
(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 23, 2004.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed January 23, 2004. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.