Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
Signed December 22, 2010·Barack Obama·75 FR 81817
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Sets updated rates of basic pay and salaries for various federal pay systems, pursuant to the Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act, 2011. Covers the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration pay schedules, the Senior Executive Service, the Executive Schedule, salaries for the Vice President and Congress, judicial salaries, uniformed services pay, locality-based comparability payments, and administrative law judges' pay, with specific rates attached as numbered schedules. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement locality-based comparability payments and publish notice of them in the Federal Register. Most schedules take effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period on or after January 1, 2011, while the uniformed services schedule takes effect January 1, 2011. Supersedes Executive Order 13525 of December 23, 2009.
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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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Executive Order 13561 of December 22, 2010
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. Pursuant to the
Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation
Extensions Act, 2011 (H.R. 3082), which I signed into
law today (the “Continuing Appropriations Act”), the
rates of basic pay or salaries of the statutory pay
systems (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 5302(1)) 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), and section 140 of Public Law 97-92)
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 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, the Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance
Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-84; 5 U.S.C. 5304 note),
and the Continuing Appropriations Act, 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. Pursuant to section
5372 of title 5, United States Code, the rates of basic
pay for administrative law judges are set forth on
Schedule 10 attached hereto and made a part hereof.
Sec. 7. Effective Dates. Schedule 8 is effective
January 1, 2011. The other schedules contained herein
are effective on the first day of the first applicable
pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2011.
Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13525
of December 23, 2009, is superseded.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 22, 2010.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 22, 2010. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.