Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

This executive order adjusts federal pay rates across multiple government pay systems, including the General Schedule, Senior Executive Service, Executive Schedule, Vice President and congressional salaries, judicial pay, uniformed services, and locality-based comparability payments. It supersedes the previous year's pay adjustment order and specifies effective dates for implementation.

Federal Register Open PDF 62 FR 68521

Impact dates

Date TBD
All other schedules effective on first day of first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 1998
Jan 1, 1998
Schedule 8 (uniformed services pay) effective

Key directives

Set adjusted rates for statutory pay systems (General Schedule, Foreign Service Schedule, VA schedules)
Set Senior Executive Service basic pay rates
Set Executive Schedule, Vice President, congressional, and judicial salaries
Set uniformed services monthly basic pay and cadet/midshipman pay
Implement locality-based comparability payments per Schedule 9
OPM Director to publish payment notice in Federal Register
Supersede Executive Order 13033

Who is ordered

OPM Director · OPM

Timeline

Immediate

EO signed December 29, 1997
Supersedes prior Executive Order 13033

Near term (90d)

Schedule 8 (uniformed services) effective January 1, 1998
All other schedules effective first day of first applicable pay period on or after January 1, 1998

Long term

Annual pay adjustment mechanism continues
Locality-based comparability payments implemented per Schedule 9

Risks & tensions

Vague timing for non-Schedule 8 pay periods—'first applicable pay period' varies by agency payroll cycles, creating staggered implementation
No explicit deadline for OPM Director's Federal Register publication of locality payments