Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

This executive order implements annual pay adjustments for federal employees, military personnel, judges, members of Congress, and the Vice President as authorized by statute. It sets forth specific pay schedules effective January 1, 2000, or the first applicable pay period thereafter, and supersedes the prior year's pay adjustment order.

Federal Register Open PDF 64 FR 72237

Impact dates

Jan 1, 2000
Schedule 8 (uniformed services pay) effective
Jan 1, 2000
All other schedules effective: first day of first applicable pay period on or after January 1, 2000

Key directives

Set statutory pay system rates per 5 U.S.C. 5303(a) and Public Law 106-58 section 646(a)
Set Senior Executive Service rates per 5 U.S.C. 5382
Set Executive Schedule, Vice President, and Congressional salaries
Set judicial salaries per 28 U.S.C. provisions
Set military basic pay rates per Public Law 106-65 section 601(a)-(b)
Implement locality-based comparability payments per 5 U.S.C. 5304
Set administrative law judge pay rates per 5 U.S.C. 5372(b)(4)
OPM Director to publish payment notice in Federal Register
Supersede Executive Order 13106 sections 1-7

Who is ordered

OPM Director · OPM

Timeline

Immediate

EO signed December 21, 1999

Near term (90d)

Schedule 8 (military pay) effective January 1, 2000
All other schedules effective first day of first applicable pay period on or after January 1, 2000

Long term

Continued annual pay adjustments expected through subsequent legislation and orders

Risks & tensions

No explicit tension in text; routine annual adjustment mandated by statute
Exact date of 'first applicable pay period' varies by agency pay cycle, creating minor administrative coordination