Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
Signed December 18, 2015·Barack Obama·80 FR 80195
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Sets updated federal pay rates across multiple government pay systems, using schedules attached to the order. These cover the General Schedule for federal civilian employees, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration pay scales, Senior Executive Service pay ranges, the Executive Schedule for top federal officials, pay for the Vice President and Congress, judicial salaries, uniformed services basic pay and cadet or midshipman pay, locality-based pay adjustments, and administrative law judge pay. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement the locality-based payments and publish notice of them in the Federal Register. Most schedules take effect on the first day of the first pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2016, while the uniformed services pay schedule takes effect January 1, 2016. Supersedes the prior pay-rate order, Executive Order 13686 of December 19, 2014, as of these effective dates.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
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Supersedes: EO 13686, December 19, 2014 Superseded by: EO 13756, December 27, 2016
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Executive Order 13715 of December 18, 2015
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, 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, 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. 4501) at Schedule 6; and
(c) Justices and judges (28 U.S.C. 5, 44(d), 135,
252, and 461(a)) 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, and my authority to implement an alternative
level of comparability payments under section 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. 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, 2016. The other schedules contained herein
are effective on the first day of the first applicable
pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2016.
Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13686
of December 19, 2014, is superseded as of the effective
dates specified in section 7 of this order.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 18, 2015.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 18, 2015. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.