Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
Signed December 31, 2020·Donald Trump·86 FR 421
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Sets updated rates of basic pay and salaries for federal employees and officials across multiple pay systems, based on schedules attached to the order. Covers the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration pay schedules, the Senior Executive Service, the Executive Schedule, the Vice President and Congress, federal justices and judges, uniformed services members and military cadets and midshipmen, locality-based pay adjustments, and administrative law judges. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement locality-based comparability payments and publish notice of them in the Federal Register. The military pay schedule takes effect January 1, 2021, while the other pay schedules take effect at the start of the first full pay period on or after that date. Supersedes Executive Order 13901 of December 26, 2019, 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Supersedes: EO 13901, December 26, 2019 Superseded by: EO 14061, December 22, 2021
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Executive Order 13970 of December 31, 2020
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, 2021. The other schedules contained herein
are effective on the first day of the first applicable
pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2021.
Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13901
of December 26, 2019, is superseded as of the effective
dates specified in section 7 of this order.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 31, 2020.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 31, 2020. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.