For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 3, 2004
Executive Order: Further Adjustment of Certain Rates of Pay
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America, including the laws cited
herein, 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 adjusted under 5 U.S.C. 5303(a), 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. The ranges of rates of basic
pay for senior executives in the Senior Executive Service, as
established pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5382, as amended by section 1125 of
Public Law 108-136, are set forth on Schedule 4 attached hereto and
made a part hereof.
Sec. 3. Executive and Certain Other Salaries. The rates of basic
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. 5311-5318) 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 140 of Public Law 97-92, and Public Law 108-167) at Schedule
7.
Sec. 4. Uniformed Services. Pursuant to section 601(a)-(b) of
Public Law 108-136, the rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C. 203) for
members of the uniformed services, as adjusted under 37 U.S.C. 1009,
and the rate of monthly cadet or midshipman pay are set forth on
Schedule 8 attached hereto and made a part hereof.
Sec. 5. Locality-Based Comparability Payments.
(a) Pursuant to section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, and
in accordance with section 640(a) of Division F of Public Law 108-199,
locality-based comparability payments shall be paid in accordance with
Schedule 9 attached hereto and made a part hereof.
(b) The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall take
such actions as may be necessary to implement these payments and to
publish appropriate notice of such payments in the Federal Register.
Sec. 6. Administrative Law Judges. The rates of pay for
administrative law judges, as adjusted under 5 U.S.C. 5372(b)(4), are
set forth on Schedule 10 attached hereto and made a part hereof.
Sec. 7. Effective Dates. Schedule 8 is effective on January 1,
2004. The other schedules contained herein are effective on the first
day of the first pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2004.
Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13322 of December
30, 2003, is superseded.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 3, 2004.
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