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Executive Order 13483

Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

This executive order implements annual federal pay adjustments for 2009, covering civilian employees under statutory pay systems, Senior Executive Service, executive/legislative/judicial branch officials, uniformed military personnel, and administrative law judges. It sets new pay rates via attached schedules and authorizes locality-based comparability payments, with most schedules taking effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2009.

Federal Register Open PDF 73 FR 78587

Impact dates

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

  2. Earliest possible effective date for other schedules (first pay period start after Jan 1 for most federal employees)

  3. Schedule 8 (uniformed services pay) effective

  4. Other schedules effective on first day of first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2009

Key directives

  • Set statutory pay system rates via attached Schedules 1-3
  • Set Senior Executive Service pay ranges via Schedule 4
  • Set Executive Schedule, Vice President, and Congressional salaries via Schedules 5-6
  • Set judicial salaries via Schedule 7
  • Set uniformed services monthly basic pay via Schedule 8 effective January 1, 2009
  • Authorize locality-based comparability payments per Schedule 9
  • Set administrative law judge pay rates via Schedule 10
  • OPM Director to implement locality payments and publish Federal Register notice
  • Supersede Executive Order 13454

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • EO signed and published
  • supersession of Executive Order 13454

Near term (90d)

  • Schedule 8 (military pay) effective January 1, 2009
  • Schedule 1-7, 9-10 effective first day of first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2009 (likely January 4 or 11, 2009 for most federal employees)
  • OPM must publish locality pay notice in Federal Register

Long term

  • Annual pay adjustments continue under existing statutory frameworks
  • Baseline for future pay comparability calculations

Risks & tensions

  • Relative effective date creates administrative complexity across agencies with different pay period calendars
  • No stated deadline for OPM Federal Register notice—timing uncertain
  • Pay increases during 2008 financial crisis and recession may draw political scrutiny despite statutory automatic adjustment mechanism
  • Attached schedules not included in text—specific percentage increases not verifiable from this document alone
Executive Order 13483: Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay · Executive Orders