For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 14, 2005
Executive Order: Amendments to Executive Order 12293
The Foreign Service of the United States
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America, including section 402 of the
Foreign Service Act of 1980, as amended (22 U.S.C. 3962), and in order
to adjust the basic salary rates for each class of the Senior Foreign
Service, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Section 4 of Executive Order 12293 of February 23,
1981, as amended, is amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 4. Pursuant to section 402 of the Foreign Service Act (22
U.S.C. 3962), and subject to any restrictions therein, there are
established the following salary classes with titles for the Senior
Foreign Service, at the following ranges of basic rates of pay:
(a) Career Minister Range from 100 percent of the minimum rate of
basic pay for senior-level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376 to 100 percent
of the rate payable for level II of the Executive Schedule.
(b) Minister Counselor Range from 100 percent of the minimum rate
of basic pay for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376 to 107
percent of the rate payable for level III of the Executive Schedule.
(c) Counselor Range from 100 percent of the minimum rate of basic
pay for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376 to 102 percent of
the rate payable for level III of the Executive Schedule."
Sec. 2. Section 2 of Executive Order 12293, as amended, is amended
by striking "the Director of the International Communication Agency,
the Director of the United States International Development Cooperation
Agency" and inserting in lieu thereof "the Administrator of the United
States Agency for International Development".
Sec. 3. Executive Order 13325 of January 23, 2004, is revoked.
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Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any
right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by any party
at law or in equity against the United States, its departments,
agencies, entities, officers, employees, or agents, or any other
person.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 14, 2005.
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