[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 18 (Friday, January 27, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5386-5387]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-01672]
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
January 2023 Pay Schedules
AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The President adjusted the rates of basic pay and locality
payments for certain Federal civilian employees effective in January
2023. The Executive order authorizes a 4.1 percent across-the-board
increase for statutory pay systems and locality pay increases costing
approximately 0.5 percent of basic payroll, reflecting an overall
average pay increase of 4.6 percent. This notice serves as
documentation for the public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rebecca Abels, Pay and Leave, Employee
Services, Office of Personnel Management; (202) 606-2858 or [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 23, 2022, the President signed
Executive Order (E.O.) 14090 (87 FR 79985), which implemented pay
adjustments for certain Federal civilian employees in January 2023.
E.O. 14090 provides an overall average pay increase of 4.6 percent for
the statutory pay systems. This is consistent with the President's
alternative pay plan issued under 5 U.S.C. 5303(b) and 5304a on August
31, 2022. The pay rates in E.O. 14061 have been superseded.
The publication of this notice satisfies the requirement in Section
5(b) of E.O. 14090 that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
publish appropriate notice of the 2023 locality payments in the Federal
Register.
Schedule 1 of E.O. 14090 provides the rates for the 2023 General
Schedule (GS) and reflects a 4.1 percent increase from 2022. Executive
Order 14090 also includes the percentage amounts of the 2023 locality
payments. (See Section 5 and Schedule 9 of Executive Order 14090.)
General Schedule employees receive locality payments under 5 U.S.C.
5304. Locality payments apply in the United States (as defined in 5
U.S.C. 5921(4)) and its territories and possessions. In 2023, locality
payments ranging from 16.50 percent to 44.15 percent apply to GS
employees in the 54 localities pay areas. The 2023 locality pay area
definitions can be found at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/2023/locality-pay-area-definitions/.
The 2023 locality pay percentages became effective the first day of
the first pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2023 (January 1,
2023). An employee's locality rate of pay is computed by increasing his
or her scheduled annual rate of pay (as defined in 5 CFR 531.602) by
the applicable locality pay percentage. (See 5 CFR 531.604 and
531.609.)
Executive Order 14090 establishes the new Executive Schedule (EX),
which incorporates a 4.1 percent increase required under 5 U.S.C. 5318
(rounded to the nearest $100). By law, Executive Schedule officials are
not authorized to receive locality payments.
Executive Order 14090 establishes the 2023 range of rates of basic
pay for members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) under 5 U.S.C.
5382. The minimum rate of basic pay for the SES is $141,022 in 2023.
The maximum rate of the SES rate range is $212,100 (level II of the
Executive Schedule) for SES members who are covered by a certified SES
performance appraisal system and $195,000 (level III of the Executive
Schedule) for SES members who are not covered by a certified SES
performance appraisal system.
The minimum rate of basic pay for the senior-level (SL) and
scientific and professional (ST) rate range was increased by 4.1
percent ($141,022 in 2023), which is the amount of the
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across-the-board GS increase. The applicable maximum rate of the SL/ST
rate range is $212,100 (level II of the Executive Schedule) for SL or
ST employees who are covered by a certified SL/ST performance appraisal
system and $195,000 (level III of the Executive Schedule) for SL or ST
employees who are not covered by a certified SL/ST performance
appraisal system. Agencies with certified performance appraisal systems
for SES members and employees in SL and ST positions must also apply a
higher aggregate limitation on pay--up to the Vice President's salary
($272,100 in 2023.)
Note that section 747 of division E of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2023 (Pub. L. 117-328, December 29, 2022), contains
a provision that continues the freeze on the payable pay rates for the
Vice President and certain senior political appointees at the rates of
pay and applicable limitations on payable rates of pay in effect on
December 31, 2022. The section 747 pay freeze is scheduled to end on
the last day of the last pay period that begins in calendar year 2023
(January 13, 2024, for those on the standard biweekly pay period
cycle). Future Congressional action will determine whether the pay
freeze continues beyond that date. OPM guidance on the continued pay
freeze for certain senior political officials can be found in CPM 2022-
25 at https://www.chcoc.gov/content/continued-pay-freeze-certain-senior-political-officials-7.
Executive Order 14090 provides that the rates of basic pay for
administrative law judges (ALJs) under 5 U.S.C. 5372 are increased by
4.1 percent (rounded to the nearest $100) in 2023. The rate of basic
pay for AL-1 is $183,500 (equivalent to the rate for level IV of the
Executive Schedule). The rate of basic pay for AL-2 is $178,900. The
rates of basic pay for AL-3/A through 3/F range from $122,400 to
$169,600.
The rates of basic pay for members of Contract Appeals Boards are
calculated as a percentage of the rate for level IV of the Executive
Schedule. (See 5 U.S.C. 5372a.) Therefore, these rates of basic pay are
increased by 4.1 percent in 2023.
On November 30, 2022, OPM issued a memorandum on behalf of the
President's Pay Agent (the Secretary of Labor and the Directors of the
Office of Management and Budget and OPM) that continues GS locality
payments for ALJs and certain other non-GS employee categories in 2023.
By law, EX officials, SES members, employees in SL/ST positions, and
employees in certain other equivalent pay systems are not authorized to
receive locality payments. (Note: An exception applies to certain
grandfathered SES, SL, and ST employees stationed in a nonforeign area
on January 2, 2010. See CPM 2009-27 at https://www.chcoc.gov/content/nonforeign-area-retirement-equity-assurance-act.) The memo is available
at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/2022/extension-of-locality-pay-memo-for-non-gs-employees-2023.pdf.
On December 23, 2022, OPM issued a memorandum (CPM 2022-22) on the
2023 pay adjustments. (See https://www.chcoc.gov/content/january-2023-pay-adjustments.) The memorandum transmitted Executive Order 14090 and
provided the 2023 salary tables, locality pay areas and percentages,
and information on general pay administration matters and other related
guidance. The ``2023 Salary Tables'' posted on OPM's website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/ are the
official rates of pay for affected employees and are hereby
incorporated as part of this notice.
U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Stephen Hickman,
Federal Register Liaison.
[FR Doc. 2023-01672 Filed 1-26-23; 8:45 am]
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