Executive Order 13033 of December 27, 1996
Headline: Adjusts Pay Rates and Allowances for Federal Employees and Military
What it does: Federal agencies must apply the attached pay schedules and the Office of Personnel Management must implement and publish locality pay adjustments.
- Updates pay rates for civilian federal employees across multiple pay systems.
- Adjusts monthly basic pay and allowances for subsistence (food) and quarters (housing).
- Creates locality-based comparability payments to be implemented and published by OPM.
Summary
This order sets new pay rates and allowances by attaching updated pay schedules for various federal pay systems and the military.
It affects civilian federal workers (including the General Schedule, Foreign Service, Veterans Health Administration, senior executives, certain executive offices, and judges) and members of the uniformed services. The Office of Personnel Management must implement and publish locality-based pay adjustments. Schedule 8 is effective January 1, 1997; other schedules take effect on the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 1997.
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