Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
Signed December 23, 2024·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·89 FR 106963
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Sets updated 2025 pay rates for various federal employee categories through attached schedules, including the General Schedule for federal civilian employees, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration pay schedules, Senior Executive Service pay ranges, the Executive Schedule, salaries for the Vice President and Congress, judicial salaries, uniformed services basic pay and cadet pay, locality-based comparability payments, and administrative law judge pay. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement the locality-based comparability payments and publish notice in the Federal Register. States that the uniformed services pay schedule takes effect January 1, 2025, while the other schedules take effect at the start of the first applicable pay period on or after that date. Supersedes the prior pay adjustment order, Executive Order 14113 of December 21, 2023, as of these effective dates. Applies to federal civilian employees, senior executives, judges, members of Congress, the Vice President, uniformed service members, and administrative law judges.
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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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Executive Order 14132 of December 23, 2024
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, 7401, 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. 5311-5318) 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, 2025. The other schedules contained herein
are effective on the first day of the first applicable
pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2025.
Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 14113
of December 21, 2023 (Adjustments of Certain Rates of
Pay), is superseded as of the effective dates specified
in section 7 of this order.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 23, 2024.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 23, 2024. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.