Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

This executive order implements annual pay adjustments for federal employees, military personnel, and certain senior officials effective January 1, 2016. It updates statutory pay schedules including the General Schedule, Senior Executive Service, Executive/Legislative/Judicial salaries, uniformed services pay, locality payments, and administrative law judges' pay.

Federal Register Open PDF 80 FR 80195

Impact dates

Jan 1, 2016
Schedule 8 (uniformed services pay) effective
Jan 1, 2016
Other schedules effective on first day of first applicable pay period beginning on or after this date

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 (Schedules 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 judges' pay rates (Schedule 10)
OPM to publish locality payment notice in Federal Register
Supersede EO 13686 effective with this order's effective dates

Who is ordered

OPM Director · OPM

Timeline

Immediate

EO signed December 18, 2015
supersedes prior EO 13686

Near term (90d)

Schedule 8 (uniformed services) effective January 1, 2016
all other schedules effective first pay period on or after January 1, 2016
OPM to publish locality payment notice in Federal Register

Long term

continued annual pay structure until superseded

Risks & tensions

No specific percentage increases stated in text; actual amounts contained in attached schedules not reproduced
OPM Federal Register publication timing unspecified beyond 'appropriate notice'
Pay period start dates vary by agency, creating staggered implementation