Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
Signed December 19, 2011·Barack Obama·76 FR 80191
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Sets updated pay rates and schedules for various categories of federal employees, effective at the start of 2012, under authority including a law freezing certain civilian pay schedules at 2010 levels through 2012. Establishes rates for the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration pay, the Senior Executive Service, the Executive Schedule, the Vice President and Congress, federal judges, uniformed service members and cadets, administrative law judges, and locality-based pay adjustments, each attached as separate 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. States that pay for uniformed service members and cadets takes effect January 1, 2012, while the other schedules take effect at the start of the first pay period on or after that date. Supersedes the prior year's pay order, Executive Order 13561 of December 22, 2010.
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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 Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act, 2011 (Public Law 111-322), which freezes certain pay schedules for civilian Federal employees at 2010 levels through 2012 and provides for the phase-in of the full applicable locality pay rates in non-foreign areas pursuant to the Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act of 2009 (5 U.S.C. 5304 note), it is hereby ordered
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Supersedes: EO 13561, December 22, 2010
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Executive Order 13594 of December 19, 2011
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 Continuing Appropriations and
Surface Transportation Extensions Act, 2011 (Public Law
111-322), which freezes certain pay schedules for
civilian Federal employees at 2010 levels through 2012
and provides for the phase-in of the full applicable
locality pay rates in non-foreign areas pursuant to the
Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act of
2009 (5 U.S.C. 5304 note), it is hereby ordered as
follows:
Section 1. Statutory Pay Systems. Pursuant to the
Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation
Extensions Act, 2011(Public Law 111-322; December 22,
2010), 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 (5 U.S.C. 5304 note), and the Continuing
Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions
Act, 2011(Public Law 111-322; December 22, 2010),
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, 2012. The other schedules contained herein
are effective on the first day of the first applicable
pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2012.
Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13561
of December 22, 2010, is superseded.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 19, 2011.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 19, 2011. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.