Regulations Relating to Hazardous Duty Incentive Pay, Aviation Career Incentive Pay, and Submarine Duty Incentive Pay
Secretaries Authorized to Manage Hazardous, Aviation, and Submarine Pay
What it does
Agencies must exercise presidential pay authorities to set hazardous, aviation, and submarine incentive pay and consult with each other.
Real-world impact
- Allows department leaders to set specific incentive pay without Presidential approval.
- Directly affects uniformed service members under those departments' control.
- Cancels two earlier executive orders on these pay authorities.
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Summary
This order gives the secretaries of Defense, Commerce, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security the power to set and manage hazardous duty incentive pay, aviation career incentive pay, and submarine duty incentive pay for members of the uniformed services under their control. They may act without the President's approval and must consult each other to treat similar service members alike unless service needs differ.
The order revokes two prior executive orders and clarifies it does not create enforceable legal rights.
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