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Executive Order 13970 of December 31, 2020 

Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay 

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. 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, 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. 4501) 

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. 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 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 my authority 

to implement an alternative level of comparability payments under section 

5304a of title 5, United States Code, 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. Pursuant to section 5372 of title 5, 

United States Code, the rates of basic pay for administrative law judges 

are set forth on Schedule 10 attached hereto and made a part hereof. 

Sec. 7. Effective Dates. Schedule 8 is effective January 1, 2021. The other 

schedules contained herein are effective on the first day of the first applicable 

pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2021. 


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Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13901 of December 26, 

2019, is superseded as of the effective dates specified in section 7 of this 

order. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

December 31, 2020. 

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