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Executive Order 12984

Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay and Allowances

This executive order adjusts pay rates for federal civilian employees, senior executives, judges, members of Congress, the Vice President, and uniformed service members for 1996. It implements statutory pay adjustments through eight attached schedules, with most taking effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 1996.

Federal Register Open PDF 61 FR 237

Impact dates

  1. OPM Director to publish locality pay notice in Federal Register

  2. Schedule 8 (uniformed services pay and allowances) effective

  3. Other schedules effective: first day of first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 1996

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 adjusted rates for Senior Executive Service (Schedule 4)
  • Maintain unchanged rates for Executive Schedule, Vice President, Congress (Schedule 5-6) per Public Law 104-52
  • Maintain unchanged rates for justices and judges (Schedule 7) per Public Law 104-52
  • Set adjusted rates for uniformed services pay and allowances (Schedule 8)
  • Implement locality-based comparability payments per Schedule 9
  • OPM Director to implement locality payments and publish Federal Register notice
  • Supersede Executive Order 12944

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • Order signed December 28, 1995
  • Supersedes prior Executive Order 12944

Near term (90d)

  • Schedule 8 (uniformed services pay) effective January 1, 1996
  • Other schedules effective first day of first applicable pay period on or after January 1, 1996
  • OPM to publish locality pay notice in Federal Register

Long term

  • Annual pay adjustment mechanism continues per underlying statutes

Risks & tensions

  • Vague: No specific deadline for OPM Federal Register publication of locality pay notice
  • Executive/judicial/congressional salaries frozen by statute (Public Law 104-52), creating potential recruitment/retention concerns
  • Pay period start dates vary by agency, creating staggered implementation
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