Executive Order 11941—Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay and Allowances

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and as President 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 schedules for the Foreign Service (22 U.S.C. 867 and 870(a)) at Schedule 2; and

(c) the schedules for the Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration (38 U.S.C. 4107) at Schedule 3.

SEC. 2. Pay and Allowances for Members of the Uniformed Services. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1009 of Title 37 of the United States Code, the rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C. 203 (a)), 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)) are adjusted, as set forth at Schedule 4 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 the 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 5;

(b) Congressional Salaries (2 U.S.C. 31) at Schedule 6; and

(a) Judicial Salaries (28 U.S.C. 5, 44(d), 135, 173, 213, 252, 792(b) and 11 U.S.C. 68(a)), at Schedule. 7.

SEC. 4. Effective Date. The adjustments in rates of monthly basic pay and basic allowances for subsistence and quarters for members of the uniformed services shall be effective on October 1, 1976. 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, 1976.

SEC. 5. Superseded Orders. Executive Order No. 11883 of October 6, 1975.

GERALD R. FORD

The White House,

October 1, 1976.