Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

This executive order implements annual pay adjustments for federal employees, military personnel, and certain officials across all three branches of government, effective January 1, 2014. It updates ten separate pay schedules including the General Schedule, Senior Executive Service, Foreign Service, Veterans Health Administration, Executive Schedule, Congress, federal judges, uniformed services, locality pay, and administrative law judges.

Federal Register Open PDF 78 FR 80451

Impact dates

Jan 1, 2014
Schedule 8 (uniformed services pay) takes effect
Jan 1, 2014
Other schedules effective on first day of first applicable pay period beginning on or after this date

Key directives

Set General Schedule rates per Schedule 1
Set Foreign Service Schedule rates per Schedule 2
Set VA Veterans Health Administration schedules per Schedule 3
Set Senior Executive Service pay ranges per Schedule 4
Set Executive Schedule rates per Schedule 5
Set Vice President and Congressional salaries per Schedule 6
Set judicial salaries per Schedule 7
Set uniformed services monthly basic pay and cadet/midshipman pay per Schedule 8
Implement locality-based comparability payments per Schedule 9
Set administrative law judge pay rates per Schedule 10
OPM Director to implement locality payments and publish Federal Register notice
Supersede Executive Order 13641 effective with new schedules

Who is ordered

Director of the Office of Personnel Management · OPM

Timeline

Immediate

EO signed December 23, 2013
Supersedes prior EO 13641

Near term (90d)

Schedule 8 (military pay) effective January 1, 2014
All other schedules effective first pay period on or after January 1, 2014 (typically early January)
OPM must publish locality pay notice in Federal Register

Long term

Annual pay rates locked until next adjustment cycle

Risks & tensions

Low tension: routine annual pay adjustment without policy controversy
Vague on exact non-military effective date—depends on individual agency pay period cycles (typically between January 5-12, 2014)
No stated deadline for OPM Federal Register publication—only 'appropriate notice' required