[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 51 (Monday, December 26, 2005)]
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Executive Order 13393--Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

December 22, 2005

    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; section 3(d) of Public Law 108-445) at Schedule 3.
    Sec. 2. Senior Executive Service. The ranges of rates of basic pay 
for senior executives in the Senior Executive Service, as established 
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5382, are set forth on Schedule 4 attached hereto 
and made a part hereof.
    Sec. 3. Certain Executive, Legislative, and Judicial 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. 5312-5318) 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), 
section 140 of Public Law 97-92, and section 405 of Public Law 109-115) 
at Schedule 7.
    Sec. 4. Uniformed Services. Pursuant to section 601(a)-(b) of Public 
Law 108-375, the rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C. 203(a)) for 
members of the uniformed services, as adjusted under 37 U.S.C. 1009, 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 section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, and 
section 843 of Public Law 109-115, 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, 2006. 
The other schedules contained herein are effective on the first day of 
the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2006.
    Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13368 of December 
30, 2004, is superseded.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 December 22, 2005.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:29 p.m., December 
23, 2005]

Note: This Executive order and the attached annexes will be published in 
the Federal Register on December 27.