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Executive Order 12248—Federal Civilian and Military Pay Increases

October 16, 1980

ADJUSTMENTS OF CERTAIN RATES OF

PAY AND ALLOWANCES

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:

1-1. Adjusted Rates of Pay and Allowances.

1-101. Statutory Pay Systems. Pursuant to the provisions of subchapter 1 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;

(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.

1-102. Pay and Allowances for Members of the Uniformed Services. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 801 of Public Law 96-342 of September 8, 1980, 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) ) are adjusted, as set forth at Schedule 5 attached hereto and made a part hereof, for members of the uniformed services.

1-103. 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 6; and

(b) Congressional Salaries (2 U.S.C. 31) at Schedule 7.

(c) Judicial Salaries (28 U.S.C. 5, 44 (d), 135, 173, 213, 252, 792(b), and 11 U.S.C. 68(a), and Sections 401(a), 404 (a), 404(b), and 404(d) of Public Law 95-598) at Schedule 8.

1-2. General Provisions.

1-201. Effective Date. The adjustments in rates of monthly basic pay and allowances for subsistence and quarters for members of the uniformed services shall be effective on October 1, 1980. 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, 1980.

1-202. Superseded Orders. Executive Orders No. 12165 of October 12, 1979 and No. 12200 of March 12, 1980 are superseded.

JIMMY CARTER

The White House,

October 16, 1980.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:43 a.m., October 17, 1980]

Note: The schedules are printed in the FEDERAL REGISTER of October 20, 1980.

The Executive order was announced by the White House on October 17.

Jimmy Carter, Executive Order 12248—Federal Civilian and Military Pay Increases Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/251259

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