Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

This executive order implements annual pay adjustments for federal employees across multiple pay systems, including the General Schedule, Senior Executive Service, Executive Schedule, Vice President and Congress, judges, uniformed services, and administrative law judges. It also establishes locality-based comparability payments and supersedes the previous year's pay adjustment order.

Federal Register Open PDF 68 FR 1133

Impact dates

Date TBD
OPM to publish locality pay notice in Federal Register
Jan 1, 2003
Schedule 8 (uniformed services pay) effective
Jan 1, 2003
All other schedules effective: first day of first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2003

Key directives

Set adjusted rates for statutory pay systems (General Schedule, Foreign Service, VA schedules)
Set Senior Executive Service basic pay rates
Set Executive Schedule, Vice President, Congressional, and judicial salaries
Set uniformed services monthly basic pay and cadet/midshipman pay
Implement locality-based comparability payments per 5 U.S.C. 5304 and 5304a
Set administrative law judge pay rates
OPM to publish locality pay notice in Federal Register
Supersede Executive Order 13249

Who is ordered

Director of the Office of Personnel Management · OPM

Timeline

Immediate

EO signed December 31, 2002
Supersedes Executive Order 13249

Near term (90d)

Schedule 8 (uniformed services) effective January 1, 2003
All other schedules effective first day of first applicable pay period on or after January 1, 2003
OPM to publish locality pay notice in Federal Register

Long term

Annual pay rates established until superseded by subsequent order

Risks & tensions

Precise effective date for non-military schedules depends on individual agency pay period calendars, creating staggered implementation
No specific deadline provided for OPM Federal Register publication—timing uncertain
Routine annual adjustment; no policy changes or controversies evident in text