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Executive Order 14090

Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

This executive order implements annual federal pay adjustments for 2023, covering civilian employees under the General Schedule, Senior Executive Service, Foreign Service, VA health professionals, administrative law judges, and uniformed service members. It also sets salaries for top executive, legislative, and judicial officials and establishes locality-based comparability payments, with most schedules taking effect in the first pay period on or after January 1, 2023.

Federal Register Open PDF 87 FR 79985

Impact dates

  1. Schedule 8 (uniformed services) effective

  2. Other schedules effective on first day of first applicable pay period beginning on or after this date

Key directives

  • Adjust statutory pay systems (General Schedule, Foreign Service, VA schedules) per attached schedules
  • Set Senior Executive Service pay ranges
  • Set Executive Schedule, Vice President, Congressional, and judicial salaries
  • Adjust uniformed services monthly basic pay
  • Implement locality-based comparability payments per Schedule 9
  • Set administrative law judge pay rates
  • OPM Director to implement locality payments and publish Federal Register notice
  • Supersede Executive Order 14061

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • EO signed December 23, 2022
  • supersedes prior EO 14061

Near term (90d)

  • Schedule 8 (uniformed services) effective January 1, 2023
  • All other schedules effective first pay period on or after January 1, 2023 (typically early January 2023)
  • OPM must publish locality pay notice in Federal Register

Long term

  • Annual pay adjustments continue under existing statutory frameworks
  • Sets baseline for future federal compensation adjustments

Risks & tensions

  • Pay adjustments follow automatic statutory formulas; limited presidential discretion in setting amounts
  • No specific Federal Register publication deadline stated—OPM action timing uncertain
  • Political sensitivity around congressional salary adjustments, though VP/congressional pay often frozen in practice by separate legislation not mentioned here
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