Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

This executive order implements annual pay adjustments for federal employees, military personnel, and certain officials for 2010. It sets new rates for statutory pay systems, senior executives, executive/legislative/judicial salaries, uniformed services, locality pay, and administrative law judges, with most schedules taking effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2010.

Federal Register Open PDF 74 FR 69231

Impact dates

Date TBD
OPM Director to publish Federal Register notice for locality payments
Jan 1, 2010
Schedule 8 (uniformed services pay) effective
Jan 1, 2010
Schedules 1-7, 9-10 effective on first day of first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2010

Key directives

Set adjusted rates for General Schedule, Foreign Service Schedule, and VA schedules (Schedule 1-3)
Set Senior Executive Service pay ranges (Schedule 4)
Set Executive Schedule, Vice President, Congressional, and judicial salaries (Schedule 5-7)
Set uniformed services monthly basic pay and cadet/midshipman pay (Schedule 8)
Implement locality-based comparability payments per Schedule 9
Set administrative law judge pay rates (Schedule 10)
OPM Director to implement locality payments and publish Federal Register notice
Supersede Executive Order 13483

Who is ordered

OPM Director · OPM

Timeline

Immediate

EO signed December 23, 2009
Executive Order 13483 superseded

Near term (90d)

Schedule 8 (military pay) effective January 1, 2010
All other schedules effective first day of first applicable pay period on or after January 1, 2010
OPM to publish Federal Register notice for locality payments

Long term

Annual pay adjustments implemented for 2010

Risks & tensions

No specific deadline for OPM Federal Register publication—timing uncertain
First applicable pay period start date varies by agency pay system, creating staggered implementation
Routine annual adjustment; no policy disputes evident in text