Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
Signed December 18, 2008·George W. Bush·73 FR 78587
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Sets updated pay rates for various federal employee categories, effective at the start of the first pay period on or after January 1, 2009 (with military pay effective that date directly). Covers the General Schedule for federal civilian employees, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration schedules, Senior Executive Service pay ranges, the Executive Schedule, pay for the Vice President and Congress, judicial salaries, uniformed services and cadet pay, locality-based pay adjustments, and administrative law judges' pay, all detailed in attached schedules. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement locality-based payments and publish notice in the Federal Register. Supersedes the prior pay-adjustment order, Executive Order 13454 of January 4, 2008.
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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Superseded by: EO 13525, December 23, 2009;; ; Supersedes: EO 13454, January, 4, 2008
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Executive Order 13483 of December 18, 2008
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 ranges of rates
of basic pay for senior executives in the Senior
Executive Service, as established pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
5382, are set forth on Schedule 4 attached hereto and
made a part hereof.
Sec. 3. Certain Executive, Legislative, and Judicial
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), section 140 of Public Law 97-92, and
section 305 of Division D of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2008), at Schedule 7.
Sec. 4. Uniformed Services. The rates of monthly basic
pay (37 U.S.C. 203(a)) for members of the uniformed
services, as adjusted under 37 U.S.C. 1009, and section
601 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110-417, October
14, 2008), 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 section 5304 of title 5, United States
Code, and section 142 of the Consolidated Security,
Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act,
2009 (Public Law 110-329, September 30, 2008),
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
January 1, 2009. The other schedules contained herein
are effective on the first day of the first applicable
pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2009.
Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13454
of January 4, 2008, is superseded.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 18, 2008.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 18, 2008. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.