Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

This executive order implements annual pay adjustments for federal civilian employees, senior executives, uniformed service members, judges, members of Congress, the Vice President, and administrative law judges, effective January 1, 2024 or the first applicable pay period thereafter. It also authorizes locality-based comparability payments and supersedes the previous year's pay adjustment order.

Federal Register Open PDF 88 FR 89259

Impact dates

Date TBD
OPM Director to publish locality pay notice in Federal Register
Jan 14, 2024
Earliest possible effective date for other schedules (first pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2024 — assuming standard biweekly pay period)
Jan 1, 2024
Schedule 8 (uniformed services) effective
Jan 1, 2024
EO 14090 superseded (concurrent with Schedule 8 effective date)

Key directives

Set adjusted rates for General Schedule (Schedule 1)
Set adjusted rates for Foreign Service Schedule (Schedule 2)
Set adjusted rates for Veterans Health Administration schedules (Schedule 3)
Set Senior Executive Service pay ranges (Schedule 4)
Set Executive Schedule rates (Schedule 5)
Set Vice President and Congressional salaries (Schedule 6)
Set judicial salaries (Schedule 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 EO 14090 effective with this order's effective dates

Who is ordered

Director of the Office of Personnel Management · OPM

Timeline

Immediate

EO signed December 21, 2023
Supersedes prior order EO 14090

Near term (90d)

Schedule 8 (uniformed services) effective January 1, 2024
All other schedules effective first day of first applicable pay period on or after January 1, 2024
OPM must publish locality pay notice in Federal Register

Long term

Annual pay rates fixed until next adjustment cycle
Continued operation of statutory pay systems under new rates

Risks & tensions

No specific deadline given for OPM Federal Register publication — 'such actions as may be necessary' is discretionary timing
Actual effective date for non-military schedules varies by agency pay period schedule, creating staggered implementation
Pay adjustments follow statutory formulas; limited presidential discretion in actual percentage increases
Low public attention despite direct material impact on ~2 million federal workers and military personnel