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Executive Order 13594

Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

This executive order adjusts federal pay rates for 2012, implementing a pay freeze for civilian federal employees at 2010 levels through 2012 as mandated by Congress, while setting updated rates for the General Schedule, Senior Executive Service, military personnel, judges, and other federal pay systems. It also phases in locality pay adjustments for non-foreign areas and supersedes the previous year's pay order.

Federal Register Open PDF 76 FR 80191

Impact dates

  1. OPM to publish Federal Register notice on locality payments

  2. Other schedules effective (first applicable pay period, assuming biweekly cycle)

  3. Schedule 8 (military pay) effective

Key directives

  • Set statutory pay system rates (General Schedule, Foreign Service, VA schedules) per attached schedules
  • Set Senior Executive Service pay ranges
  • Set Executive Schedule, Vice President, Congressional, and judicial salaries
  • Set military basic pay and cadet/midshipman pay rates
  • Implement locality-based comparability payments per Schedule 9
  • Set administrative law judge pay rates
  • OPM to publish Federal Register notice on locality payments
  • Supersede Executive Order 13561

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • EO signed December 19, 2011
  • Executive Order 13561 superseded

Near term (90d)

  • Schedule 8 (military pay) effective January 1, 2012
  • All other schedules effective first day of first applicable pay period on or after January 1, 2012 (likely January 8 or 15, 2012 for most federal employees)
  • OPM must publish Federal Register notice on locality payments

Long term

  • Pay freeze for civilian federal employees continues through 2012 per statutory mandate
  • Non-foreign area locality pay phase-in continues per 2009 Act

Risks & tensions

  • Pay freeze may affect federal recruitment/retention; no specific tension in text itself
  • OPM Federal Register notice deadline not specified in text—vague on timing
  • Non-foreign area locality pay phase-in creates ongoing implementation complexity
Executive Order 13594: Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay · Executive Orders