Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
The order sets new pay rates for most of the federal civilian workforce, the uniformed military services, senior executives, administrative law judges, and members of Congress and the judiciary, effective January 1, 2024, superseding the prior year's pay order.
What this order does
What it orders
The order directs that updated pay schedules take effect for federal employees across all major statutory pay systems, including the General Schedule covering most civilian workers, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration pay scales, the Senior Executive Service, the Executive Schedule, congressional and Vice Presidential salaries, judicial salaries, uniformed military basic pay, locality-based comparability payments, and administrative law judge pay rates. Each schedule is attached to the order as a numbered exhibit.
Most schedules become effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2024; military basic pay takes effect January 1, 2024. The order supersedes Executive Order 14090, which set the prior year's rates, as of those effective dates.
Who it affects
Federal civilian employees across all General Schedule grades, Foreign Service officers, Veterans Health Administration clinical staff, Senior Executive Service members, administrative law judges, military service members and cadets, and elected and appointed officials including the Vice President, members of Congress, and federal judges.
Why it matters
Millions of federal employees and military service members receive updated paychecks starting in January 2024. Locality-based comparability adjustments affect how much workers in high-cost areas are paid relative to private-sector counterparts in the same region.
What must happen and when
How the order is supposed to work
The Office of Personnel Management is directed to implement the locality-based comparability payments and publish notice of those payments in the Federal Register. All other schedules are self-executing upon their effective dates. Military pay takes effect January 1, 2024; civilian pay schedules activate on the first applicable pay period on or after that date. No reporting requirements or inter-agency review steps are specified beyond OPM's publication duty.
Actions and deadlines
- Implement locality-based comparability payments and publish notice in the Federal Register
- Activate uniformed services monthly basic pay rates under Schedule 8
- Activate all other civilian pay schedules on the first applicable pay period
Agencies directed to act
Authority and reach
What this order changes
Revokes Executive Order 14090