[Title 3 CFR 13325]
[Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition) - January 1, 2005 Edition]
[Title 3 - Presidential Documents]
[Executive Order 13325 - Executive Order 13325 of January 23, 2004]
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Executive Order 13325 of January 23, 2004

Amendment to Executive Order 12293, the Foreign Service of the United 
States

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 
laws of the United States of America, including the Foreign Service Act 
of 1980, as amended, and in order to adjust the basic salary rates for 
each class of the Senior Foreign Service in light of the changes made to 
the manner in which members of the Senior Executive Service will be paid 
pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 
(Public Law 108-136), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Section 4 of Executive Order 12293 of February 23, 1981, as 
amended, is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 4. (a) In accord with Section 402 of the Act (22 U.S.C. 3962), 
there are established the following salary classes with titles for the 
Senior Foreign Service, at the following ranges of basic rates of pay.
                                                                     (1)
    Career Minister
                                                                        
    Range from 94 percent of the rate payable to level III of the 
    Executive Schedule to 100 percent of the rate payable to level III 
    of the Executive Schedule.
                                                                     (2)
    Minister-Counselor
                                                                        
    Range from 90 percent of the rate payable to level III of the 
    Executive Schedule to 100 percent of the rate payable to level III 
    of the Executive Schedule.
                                                                     (3)
    Counselor
                                                                        
    Range from 120 percent of the rate payable to GS-15/Step 1 to 100 
    percent of rate payable to level III of the Executive Schedule.
    (b) Upon conversion to a rate of basic pay within the range of rates 
established for the applicable salary class by this section as of the 
first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after 
January 1, 2004, a member of the Senior Foreign Service shall receive 
the rate of basic pay to which he or she was entitled immediately before 
that date, including any locality-based comparability payment authorized 
under 5 U.S.C. 5304(h)(2)(C) that the member was receiving immediately 
before that date. On the same date, or on a later date specified by the 
Secretary of State (or the heads of the other agencies that utilize the 
Foreign Service personnel

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system (collectively the ``Secretary'')), the Secretary may increase the 
member's rate of basic pay upon a determination that the member's 
performance or contribution to the mission of the agency so warrant and 
that the member is otherwise eligible for such a pay adjustment under 
Section 402 of the Foreign Service Act.''
Sec. 2. Effective Date. The salary rates contained herein are effective 
on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or 
after January 1, 2004.
George W. Bush
The White House,
    January 23, 2004.