EXECUTIVE
ORDER
EO 12944
Effective Date: December 28, 1994

Responsible Office: Office of Human Resources and Education
Subject: ADJUSTMENTS OF CERTAIN RATES OF PAY AND ALLOWANCES

				TEXT

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution
and the laws of the United States of America, including section
704 of Public Law 101-194; section 302 of the Federal Employees
Pay Comparability Act of 1990, as incorporated in section 529 of
Public Law 101-509; section 301(a) of Public Law 102-40; section
630(a) of Public Law 103-329; section 601 of Public Law 103-337;
section 31 of title 2, United States Code; section 104 of title
3, United States Code; sections 5303, 5318, and 5382 of title 5,
United States Code; section 3963 of title 22, United States Code;
and section 461(a) of title 28, United States Code, 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) 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 Veteran Affairs (38 U.S.C. 7306,
          7404; section 301(a) of Public Law 102-40) at Schedule
          3.

Sec. 2. Senior Executive Service.  Pursuant to section 5382 of
title 5, United States Code, the rates of basic pay for senior
executives in the Senior Executive Service are set forth on
Schedule 4 attached hereto and made a part hereof.

Sec. 3. Executive salaries.  The rates of 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) at Schedule 7.


Sec. 4. Uniformed services.  Pursuant to section 601 of Public
Law 103-337, the rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C. 203(a)),
the rates of basic allowances for subsistence (37 U.S.C. 402),
the rates of basic allowances for quarters (37 U.S.C. 403)(a),
for members of the uniformed services, and the rate of monthly
cadet or midshipman pay (37 U.S.C. 203(c)(1), and amended by
section 601(c) of Public Law 103-337) are set forth on Schedule 8
attached hereto and made a part hereof.

Sec. 5. Interim geographic adjustments.  (a) Pursuant to section
302 of the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990, as
incorporated in section 529 of Public Law 101-509, employees
under statutory pay systems covered under section 1 of this order
and members of the United States Park Police who are assigned to
a duty station located in one of the geographical areas listed in
Schedule 9 shall be entitled, except as may be provided under
subsection (b) of this section, to receive an interim geographic
adjustment at the rate shown on Schedule 9, which is attached
hereto and made a part hereof.

     (b)(1) The Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe
regulations governing the application of interim geographic to
General Schedule employees, including the determination of what,
if any, geographic adjustments shall be payable in the case of
employees receiving special pay rates.

     (2)  The Secretary of State shall prescribe regulations
          governing the application of interim geographic
          adjustments to employees under the Foreign Service
          Schedule, consistent with the regulations and
          determinations prescribed under paragraph (1) of this
          subsection.

     (3)  The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall prescribe
          regulations governing the application of interim
          geographic adjustments to employees under the schedules
          for the Veterans Health Administration of the
          Department of Veterans Affairs, consistent with the
          regulations and determinations prescribed under
          paragraph (1) of this subsection.

     (4)  The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe
          regulations governing the application of interim
          geographic adjustments to members of the United States
          Park Police, consistent with the regulations and
          determinations prescribed under paragraph (1) of this
          subsection.

     (c)  The Office of Personnel Management is hereby designated
and empowered to exercise the authority of the President under
section 302(c)(1)(D) of the Federal Employees Pay Comparability
Act of 1990, as incorporated in section 529 of Public Law 101-
509, to extend the application of interim geographic adjustments
shown on Schedule 9, upon the request of an agency head, to
employees who would not otherwise be covered.

Sec. 6. Effective dates.  The rates of monthly basic pay and
allowances for subsistence and quarters for members of the
uniformed services provided for at Schedule 8 are effective on
January 1, 1995.  The other schedules provided for herein are
effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period
beginning on or after January 1, 1995.

Sec. 7. Executive Order No. 12826 of December 30, 1992, and
Executive Order No. 12886 of December 23, 1993, are superseded.

                         /s/ WILLIAM J. CLINTON


THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 28, 1994.

			

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