based comparability payments under section 5304 of 
that title. 
(b) INTERIM FOREIGN SERVICE SCHEDULE.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of State 
shall establish an interim Foreign Service Schedule 
for members of the Service designated class 1 or 
below whose official duty station is not located in 
areas for which such members receive payments pur-
suant to section 5304 or 5941 of title 5, United 
States Code. 
(2) INCREASED RATES.—The rates under the 
Foreign Service Schedule established under this sub-
section shall be 9 percent higher than the rates 
under the Foreign Service Schedule described in 
subsection (a) unless a different percentage is pre-
scribed by the President. Each covered member shall 
receive a corresponding increase in the member’s 
rate of basic pay. Any adjustment of the rates under 
the Foreign Service Schedule described in subsection 
(a) shall result in a corresponding adjustment of 
rates under the Foreign Service Schedule established 
under this subsection. 
(3) CONVERSION
RULES.—The Secretary, in 
the Secretary’s sole and exclusive discretion, shall 
establish conversion rules for a member who is 
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transferred between the Foreign Service Schedule 
described in subsection (a) and the Foreign Service 
Schedule established under this subsection due to a 
change in official duty station. 
(c) STEP INCREASES.—A member covered by the 
Foreign Service Schedule (including the interim Foreign 
Service Schedule) shall receive within class salary step in-
creases in accordance with section 406 of the Foreign 
Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3966), including step in-
creases that become effective on the first day of the first 
pay period beginning on or after April 1, 2008. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall take effect 
beginning on the first day of the first pay period beginning 
on or after April 1, 2007, and ending on the effective date 
described in section 14(e). 
SEC. 16. UNIFORM COMPENSATION FOR WORLDWIDE SERV-
ICE. 
(a) TRANSITIONS AND PAY FORMULAS.— 
(1) TRANSITION DATE.—Subject to paragraphs 
(2) through (4), a member of the Service designated 
class 1 or below shall be converted to the new For-
eign Service Schedule established under section 403 
of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, as amended by 
section 14, on the first day of the first pay period 
beginning on or after April 1, 2008. 
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(2) SIMULTANEOUS PAY ACTIONS.—Subject to 
section 15(c), the Secretary, in the Secretary’s sole 
and exclusive discretion, shall determine whether 
and how any applicable simultaneous pay actions 
will be applied in connection with a conversion, 
under paragraph (1). 
(3) PAY CONVERSION FORMULA.—Any member 
described in paragraph (1) whose official duty sta-
tion is not located in an area for which members re-
ceive payments pursuant to section 5304 or 5941 of 
title 5, United States Code, shall receive an increase 
in the member’s rate of basic pay upon conversion, 
if necessary, to ensure that the resulting rate equals 
the sum of— 
(A) the base rate under the Foreign Serv-
ice Schedule described in subsection (a) for the 
member’s class and step; and 
(B) the amount resulting from multiplying 
the rate described in subparagraph (A) by the 
locality-based comparability percentage in effect 
for the Washington, D.C. locality pay area at 
that time. 
(4) LOCALITY-BASED
PAY.—Any member de-
scribed in paragraph (1) whose official duty station 
is located in an area for which such members receive 
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payments pursuant to section 5304 or 5941 of title 
5, United States Code, shall, upon conversion, cease 
to receive payments authorized under such sections 
and shall receive instead an increase in the mem-
ber’s rate of basic pay equivalent to the percentage 
value of the locality-based comparability payment re-
ceived by members of the Service designated class 1 
or below whose official duty station was Washington, 
D.C. on the date of conversion. 
(b) ADJUSTMENTS IN THE RATE OF BASIC PAY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—After conversion to the For-
eign Service Schedule established under section 403 
of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, as amended by 
section 14, the Secretary, in the Secretary’s sole and 
exclusive discretion, may provide a special one-time 
adjustment in the rate of basic pay for career can-
didates or other members of the Service— 
(A) whose performance has not been re-
viewed by a selection board under section 602 
of such Act (22 U.S.C. 4002); and 
(B) who, if not for such conversion, would 
have been scheduled to receive a step increase 
after the date of conversion and before Sep-
tember 30, 2008. 
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