[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 50 (Monday, December 22, 2008)]
[Pages 1567-1568]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13483--Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

December 18, 2008

    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 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 305 of Division D of the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008), at Schedule 7.

    Sec. 4. Uniformed Services. 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 section 601 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110-417, October 14, 
2008), 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 142 of the 
Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing 
Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 110-329, September 30, 2008), 
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 January 1, 2009. 
The other schedules contained herein are effective on the first day

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of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 
2009.
    Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13454 of January 4, 
2008, is superseded.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 December 18, 2008.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., December 22, 
2008]

Note: This Executive order and its annexes will be published in the 
Federal Register on December 23.