October 15, 1981
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Statutory Pay Systems. Pursuant to the provisions of subchapter I of Chapter 53 of Title 5 of the United States Code, the rates of basic pay and salaries are adjusted, as set forth at the schedules attached hereto and made a part hereof, for the following statutory pay systems:
(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;
(c) The Schedules for the Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration (38 U.S.C. 4107) at Schedule 3; and
(d) The rates of basic pay for the Senior Executive Service (5 U.S.C. 5382) at Schedule 4.
Sec. 2. Pay and Allowances for Members of the Uniformed Services. Sections 101 and 102 of the Uniformed Services Pay Act of 1981 provides for adjustments in the rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C. 203(a) and (c)), the rates of basic allowances for subsistence (37 U.S.C. 402), and the rates of basic allowances for quarters (37 U.S.C. 403(a)), as set forth at Schedule 5 attached hereto and made a part hereof, for members of the uniformed services.
Sec. 3. Executive Salaries. The Executive Salary Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act (Public Law 94-82, 89 Stat. 419) provides for adjustments in rates of pay and salaries, as set forth at the schedules attached hereto and made a part hereof, for the following:
(a) The Vice President (3 U.S.C. 104) and the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5312 - 5316) at Schedule 6;
(b) Congressional Salaries (2 U.S.C. 31) at Schedule 7; and
(c) Judicial Salaries (28 U.S.C. 5, 44(d), 135, 173, 213, 252, 792(b), and 11 U.S.C. 68(a), and Section 401(a), 404(a), 404(b), and 404(d) of Public Law 95-598) at Schedule 8.
Sec. 4. Effective Date. The adjustments in rates of monthly basic pay and allowances for subsistence and quarters for members of uniformed services shall be effective on October 1, 1981. All other adjustments of salary or pay shall be effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after October 1, 1981.
Sec. 5. Superseded Executive Orders. Executive Order No. 12248 of October 16, 1980 and Executive Order No. 12249 of October 25, 1980 are superseded.
Ronald Reagan
The White House,
October 15, 1981.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:52 a.m., October 15, 1981]
Note: The schedules are printed in the Federal Register of October 16, 1981.