[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 1 (Monday, January 6, 2003)]
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Executive Order 13282--Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

December 31, 2002

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the laws cited 
herein, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Statutory Pay Systems. The rates of basic pay or salaries 
of the statutory pay systems (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 5302(1)), as 
adjusted under 5 U.S.C. 5303(a), are set forth on the schedules attached 
hereto and made a part hereof:
    (a) The General Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5332(a)) at Schedule 1;
    (b) The Foreign Service Schedule (22 U.S.C. 3963) at Schedule 2; and
    (c) The schedules for the Veterans Health Administration of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs (38 U.S.C. 7306, 7404; section 301(a) of 
Public Law 102-40) at Schedule 3.
    Sec. 2. Senior Executive Service. The rates of basic pay for senior 
executives in the Senior Executive Service, as adjusted under 5 U.S.C. 
5382, are set forth on Schedule 4 attached hereto and made a part 
hereof.
    Sec. 3. Executive Salaries. The rates of basic pay or salaries for 
the following offices and positions are set forth on the schedules 
attached hereto and made a part hereof:
    (a) The Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5311-5318) at Schedule 5;
    (b) The Vice President (3 U.S.C. 104) and the Congress (2 U.S.C. 31) 
at Schedule 6; and
    (c) Justices and judges (28 U.S.C. 5, 44(d), 135, 252, and 461(a), 
and section 140 of Public Law 97-92) at Schedule 7.
    Sec. 4. Uniformed Services. Pursuant to section 601(a)-(b) of Public 
Law 107-314, the rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C. 203(a)) for 
members of the uniformed services and the rate of monthly cadet or 
midshipman pay (37 U.S.C. 203(c)) are set forth on Schedule 8 attached 
hereto and made a part hereof.
    Sec. 5. Locality-Based Comparability Payments.
    (a) Pursuant to sections 5304 and 5304a of title 5, United States 
Code, locality-based comparability payments shall be paid in accordance 
with Schedule 9 attached hereto and made a part hereof.
    (b) The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall take 
such actions as may be necessary to implement these payments and to 
publish appropriate notice of such payments in the Federal Register.
    Sec. 6. Administrative Law Judges. The rates of basic pay for 
administrative law judges, as adjusted under 5 U.S.C. 5372(b)(4), are 
set forth on Schedule 10 attached hereto and made a part hereof.
    Sec. 7. Effective Dates. Schedule 8 is effective on January 1, 2003. 
The other schedules contained herein are effective on the first day of 
the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2003.
    Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13249 of December 
28, 2001, is superseded.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 December 31, 2002.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., January 7, 
2003]

Note: This Executive order and the attached annexes will be published in 
the Federal Register on January 8.

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