Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

This executive order implements annual pay adjustments for federal employees, military personnel, and certain officials for 2020, as authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020. It updates pay schedules for statutory systems including the General Schedule, Senior Executive Service, Foreign Service, Veterans Health Administration, uniformed services, and executive/legislative/judicial salaries, while superseding the prior year's pay order.

Federal Register Open PDF 84 FR 72213

Impact dates

Jan 1, 2020
Schedule 8 (uniformed services pay) effective
Jan 1, 2020
Other schedules effective on first day of first applicable pay period beginning on or after this date

Key directives

Set 2020 pay rates for General Schedule, Foreign Service, and VA schedules (Schedule 1-3)
Set Senior Executive Service pay ranges (Schedule 4)
Set Executive Schedule, Vice President, Congressional, and judicial salaries (Schedule 5-7)
Set uniformed services monthly basic pay and cadet/midshipman pay (Schedule 8)
Implement locality-based comparability payments per Schedule 9
Set administrative law judge pay rates (Schedule 10)
OPM Director to implement locality payments and publish Federal Register notice
Supersede Executive Order 13866

Who is ordered

OPM Director · OPM

Timeline

Immediate

EO signed December 26, 2019
supersedes prior Executive Order 13866

Near term (90d)

Schedule 8 (military pay) effective January 1, 2020
all other schedules effective first day of first applicable pay period on or after January 1, 2020
OPM to publish locality pay notice in Federal Register

Long term

annual pay rates established for 2020

Risks & tensions

No explicit deadline for OPM Federal Register publication—only 'such actions as may be necessary' language
Pay period start dates vary by agency, creating slight effective date variation across government
Attached schedules not reproduced in text; actual dollar amounts not verifiable from this document alone