Executive Order 12826—Adjustment of Certain Rates of Pay and Allowances

The statutory pay system salary or basic pay rates are amended on the General Schedule, Foreign Service Schedule and the Veterans Health Administration schedule. Executive salaries are also affected, including those of judges, justices, Congressional members and the vice president. Those in the uniformed services will receive geographic adjustments or different rates of pay dependent upon the economic situation in which they are stationed. This new schedule goes into effect Jan 1, 1993. By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 704 of Public Law 101--194; section 302 of the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990, as incorporated in section 529 of Public Law 101--509; section 633 of Public Law 101--509; section 301(a) of Public Law 102--40; section 304 of Public Law 102--395; section 601 of Public Law 102--484; section 31 of title 2, United States Code; section 104 of title 3, United States Code; sections 5303, 5318, and 5382 of title 5, United States Code; and section 461(a) of title 28, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Statutory pay systems. The rates of basic pay or salaries of the statutory pay systems (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 5302(1), as amended by section 2(25) of Public Law 102--378) are set forth on the schedules attached hereto and made a part hereof: (a) The General Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5332(a)) at Schedule 1; (b) The Foreign Service Schedule (22 U.S.C. 3963) at Schedule 2; and (c) The schedules for the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs (38 U.S.C. 7306, 7404; section 301(a) of Public Law 102--40) at Schedule 3. Sec. 2. Senior Executive Service. Pursuant to section 5382 of title 5, United States Code, the rates of basic pay for members of the Senior Executive Service are set forth on Schedule 4 attached hereto and made a part hereof. Sec. 3. Executive salaries. The rates of pay or salaries for the following offices and positions are set forth on the schedules attached hereto and made a part hereof: (a) The Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5312--5316, 5318) at Schedule 5; (b) The Vice President (3 U.S.C. 104) and the Congress (2 U.S.C. 31) at Schedule 6; and (c) Justices and Judges (28 U.S.C. 5, 44(d), 135, 252, and 461(a); section 304 of Public Law 102--395) at Schedule 7. Sec. 4. Uniformed services. Pursuant to section 601 of Public Law 102--484, the rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C. 203(a)), the rates of basic allowances for subsistence (37 U.S.C. 402), and the rates of basic allowances for quarters (37 U.S.C. 403(a)) for members of the uniformed services are set forth at Schedule 8 attached hereto and made a part hereof. Sec. 5. Interim geographic adjustments. (a) Pursuant to section 302 of the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990, as incorporated in section 529 of Public Law 101--509, employees under statutory pay systems covered under section 1 of this order, and members of the United States Park Police, who are assigned to a duty station located in one of the geographical areas listed in Schedule 9 shall be entitled, except as may be provided under subsection (b) of this section, to receive an interim geographic adjustment at the rate shown on Schedule 9, which schedule is attached hereto and made a part hereof. (b)(1) The Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations governing the application of interim geographic adjustments to General Schedule employees, including the determination of what, if any, geographic adjustment shall be payable in the case of employees receiving special pay rates. (2) The Secretary of State shall prescribe regulations governing the application of interim geographic adjustments to employees under the Foreign Service Schedule, consistent with the regulations and determinations prescribed under paragraph (1) of this subsection. (3) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall prescribe regulations governing the application of interim geographic adjustments to employees under the schedules for the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs, consistent with the regulations and determinations prescribed under paragraph (1) of this subsection. (4) The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe regulations governing the application of interim geographic adjustments to members of the United States Park Police, consistent with the regulations and determinations prescribed under paragraph (1) of this subsection. (c) The Office of Personnel Management is hereby designated and empowered to exercise the authority of the President under section 302(c)(1)(D) of the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990, as incorporated in section 529 of Public Law 101--509, to extend the application of interim geographic adjustments shown on Schedule 9, upon the request of an agency head, to employees who would not otherwise be covered. Sec. 6. Effective dates. The rates of monthly basic pay and allowances for subsistence and quarters for members of the uniformed services provided for at Schedule 8 are effective on January 1, 1993. The other schedules provided for herein are effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 1993. Sec. 7. Executive Order No. 12786 of December 26, 1991, is superseded. George Bush The White House, December 30, 1992.