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[USC10] 5 USC 5304: Locality-based comparability payments
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5 USC 5304: Locality-based comparability payments Text contains those laws in effect on February 22, 2018
From Title 5-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEESPART III-EMPLOYEESSubpart D-Pay and AllowancesCHAPTER 53-PAY RATES AND SYSTEMSSUBCHAPTER I-PAY COMPARABILITY SYSTEM
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the amount of the comparability payments payable under this subsection in a calendar year within any locality in which a comparability payment is payable shall be computed using such percentage as the President determines for such locality under subsection (d)(2), except that-
(c)(1) The amount of the comparability payment payable within any particular locality during a calendar year-
(2) A comparability payment-
(d) In order to carry out this section, the President shall-
(1) direct such agent as he considers appropriate to prepare and submit to him annually, after considering such views and recommendations as may be submitted under subsection (e) (but not later than 13 months before the start of the calendar year for purposes of which it is prepared), a report that-
(3) transmit to Congress a report of the actions taken under paragraph (2) (together with a copy of the report submitted to him by his agent, including the views and recommendations referred to in subsection (e)(2)(C)) which shall-
(e)(1) The President shall establish a Federal Salary Council of 9 members, of whom-
(2) The pay agent shall-
(A) provide for meetings with the Council and give thorough consideration to the views and recommendations of the Council and the individual views and recommendations, if any, of the members of the Council regarding-
(f)(1) The pay agent may provide for such pay localities as the pay agent considers appropriate, except that-
(2) The applicable maximum under this subsection shall be level III of the Executive Schedule for-
(h)(1) For the purpose of this subsection, the term "position" means-
(B) A request by an agency head or exercise of authority by the President under subparagraph (A) shall cover-
(3) Comparability payments under this subsection-
( Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 459 ; Pub. L. 91–375, §6(c)(11), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 776 ; Pub. L. 95–454, title IX, §906(a)(2), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1224 ; Pub. L. 96–465, title II, §2314(c)(3), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2168 ; Pub. L. 101–509, title V, §529 [title I, §101(a)(1)], Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1427 , 1431; Pub. L. 102–378, §2(26), Oct. 2, 1992, 106 Stat. 1348 ; Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title XI, §1125(a)(1), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1638 ; Pub. L. 108–411, title III, §302(a)(1), Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2318 ; Pub. L. 110–372, §2(a), Oct. 8, 2008, 122 Stat. 4043 ; Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title XIX, §1912(a), Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2619 .)
5 U.S.C. 1174. Oct. 11, 1962, Pub. L. 87–793, §505, 76 Stat. 842 .
Section 5302(8)(C), referred to in subsec. (d)(1)(A), was redesignated 5302(8)(B) of this title by Pub. L. 103–89, §3(b)(1)(E)(i)(II), Sept. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 981 .
2009-Subsec. (f)(1)(A). Pub. L. 111–84, §1912(a)(1), added subpar. (A) and struck out former subpar. (A), which read as follows: "each General Schedule position (excluding any outside the continental United States, as defined in section 5701(6)) shall be included with a pay locality; and".
2008-Subsec. (g)(2). Pub. L. 110–372, §2(a)(1), amended par. (2) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (2) read as follows:
"(2) The applicable maximum under this subsection shall be level III of the Executive Schedule for-
2004-Subsec. (g)(2)(A). Pub. L. 108–411, §302(a)(1)(A), substituted "(A)–(C)" for "(A)–(D)".
2003-Subsec. (g)(2)(A). Pub. L. 108–136, §1125(a)(1)(A)(i), substituted "subparagraphs (A)–(D)" for "subparagraphs (A)–(E)".
1992-Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 102–378, §2(26)(A)(i), substituted "Subject to paragraph (4)," for "Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5)," and "a comparability payment" for "a comparative payment".
1990-Pub. L. 101–509 amended section generally, substituting provisions relating to locality-based comparability payments for provisions making functions, duties, and regulations of agencies and Office of Personnel Management with respect to this subchapter subject to Presidential policies and regulations.
1980-Pub. L. 96–465 substituted "the Foreign Service Act of 1980" for "chapter 14 of title 22" in provisions preceding par. (1).
1978-Pub. L. 95–454 substituted "Office of Personnel Management" for "Civil Service Commission".
1970-Pub. L. 91–375 struck out provisions making functions, duties and regulations of the agencies and the Civil Service Commission with respect to the provisions of part III of title 39 relating to employees in the postal field service subject to Presidential policies and regulations.
Pub. L. 108–411, title III, §302(a)(2), Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2318 , provided that: "The amendments made by this subsection [amending this section] shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 108–136)."
Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title XI, §1125(c), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1640 , provided that:
Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title XIX, subtitle B, Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2619 , as amended by Pub. L. 111–383, div. A, title X, §1075(d)(22), Jan. 7, 2011, 124 Stat. 4374 , provided that:
"This subtitle may be cited as the 'Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act of 2009' or the 'Non-Foreign AREA Act of 2009'.
"(a) Locality-based Comparability Payments.-[Amended this section.]
"(b) Allowances Based on Living Costs and Conditions of Environment.-[Amended section 5941 of this title.]
"(a) In General.-Each special rate of pay established under section 5305 of title 5, United States Code, and payable in an area designated as a cost-of-living allowance area under section 5941(a) of that title, shall be adjusted, on the dates prescribed by section 1914, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management under section 1918.
"(b) Agencies With Statutory Authority.-
"(1) In general.-Each special rate of pay established under an authority described under paragraph (2) and payable in a location designated as a cost-of-living allowance area under section 5941(a)(1) of title 5, United States Code, shall be adjusted in accordance with regulations prescribed by the applicable head of the agency that are consistent with the regulations issued by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management under subsection (a).
"(2) Statutory authority.-The authority referred to under paragraph (1), [sic] is any statutory authority that-
"(c) Temporary Adjustment.-Regulations issued under subsection (a) or (b) may provide that statutory limitations on the amount of such special rates may be temporarily raised to a higher level during the transition period described in section 1914 ending on the first day of the first pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2012, at which time any special rate of pay in excess of the applicable limitation shall be converted to a retained rate under section 5363 of title 5, United States Code.
"Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle or section 5304 or 5304a of title 5, United States Code, in implementing the amendments made by this subtitle, for each non-foreign area determined under section 5941(b) of such title, the applicable rate for the locality-based comparability adjustment that is used in the computation required under section 5941(c) of such title shall be adjusted, effective on the first day of the first pay period beginning on or after January 1-
"(4) if the surveys under paragraph (3) indicate that the pay disparity determined for the State of Alaska, the State of Hawaii, or any 1 of the United States territories including American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands exceeds the pay disparity determined for the locality which (for purposes of section 5304 of that title) is commonly known as the 'Rest of the United States', the President's Pay Agent should take appropriate measures to provide that each such surveyed area be treated as a separate pay locality for purposes of that section; and
"(b) Savings Provisions.-
"(1) In general.-During the transition period described in section 1914 ending on the first day of the first pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2012, an employee paid a special rate under 5305 of title 5, United States Code, who the day before the date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 28, 2009] was eligible to receive a cost-of-living allowance under section 5941 of title 5, United States Code, and who continues to be officially stationed in an allowance area, shall receive an increase in the employee's special rate consistent with increases in the applicable special rate schedule. For employees in allowance areas, the minimum step rate for any grade of a special rate schedule shall be increased at the time of an increase in the applicable locality rate percentage for the allowance area by not less than the dollar increase in the locality-based comparability payment for a non-special rate employee at the same minimum step provided under section 1914 of this subtitle, and corresponding increases shall be provided for all step rates of the given pay range.
"(2) Continuation of cost of living allowance rate.-If an employee, who the day before the date of enactment of this Act was eligible to receive a cost-of-living allowance under section 5941 of title 5, United States Code, would receive a rate of basic pay and applicable locality-based comparability payment which is in excess of the maximum rate limitation set under section 5304(g) of title 5, United States Code, for his position (but for that maximum rate limitation) due to the operation of this subtitle, the employee shall continue to receive the cost-of-living allowance rate in effect on December 31, 2009 without adjustment until-
"(3) Locality-based comparability payments.-Any employee covered under paragraph (2) shall receive any applicable locality-based comparability payment extended under section 1914 of this subtitle which is not in excess of the maximum rate set under section 5304(g) of title 5, United States Code, for his position including any future increase to statutory pay limitations under 5318 of title 5, United States Code. Notwithstanding paragraph (2), to the extent that an employee covered under that paragraph receives any amount of locality-based comparability payment, the cost-of-living allowance rate under that paragraph shall be reduced accordingly, as provided under section 5941(c)(2)(B) of title 5, United States Code.
"(1) Definition.-In this subsection, the term 'covered employee' means-
"(A) any employee who-
"(i) on the day before the date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 28, 2009]-
"(B) any employee who-
"(i) on the day before the date of enactment of this Act-
"(ii) on or after the date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 28, 2009]-
"(2) Application to covered employees.-
"(A) In general.-Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of this subtitle (including the amendments made by this subtitle) any covered employee shall be treated as an employee to whom section 5941 of title 5, United States Code (as amended by section 1912 of this subtitle), and section 1914 of this subtitle apply.
"(B) Pay fixed by statute.-Pay to covered employees under section 5304 or 5304a of title 5, United States Code, as a result of the application of this subtitle shall be considered to be fixed by statute.
"(C) Performance appraisal system.-With respect to a covered employee who is subject to a performance appraisal system no part of pay attributable to locality-based comparability payments as a result of the application of this subtitle including section 5941 of title 5, United States Code (as amended by section 1912 of this subtitle), may be reduced on the basis of the performance of that employee.
"(b) Postal Employees in Non-foreign Areas.-
"(1) In general.-[Amended section 1005 of Title 39, Postal Service.]
"(2) Continuation of cost of living allowance.-
"(A) In general.-Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle, any employee of the Postal Service (other than an employee covered by section 1003(b) and (c) of title 39, United States Code, whose duty station is in a nonforeign area) who is paid an allowance under section 1005(b) of that title shall be treated for all purposes as if the provisions of this subtitle (including the amendments made by this subtitle) had not been enacted, except that the cost-of-living allowance rate paid to that employee-
"(ii) shall be the greater of-
"(B) Rule of construction.-Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed to-
"(a) Definition.-In this section the term 'covered employee' means any employee-
"(b) Election.-
"(1) In general.-An employee described under subsection (a)(1) and (2) may file an election with the Office of Personnel Management to be covered under this section.
"(2) Deadline.-An election under this subsection may be filed not later than December 31, 2012.
"(c) Computation of Annuity.-
"(1) In general.-Except as provided under paragraph (2), for purposes of the computation of an annuity of a covered employee any cost-of-living allowance under section 5941 of title 5, United States Code, paid to that employee during the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2010 through the first applicable pay period ending on or after December 31, 2012, shall be considered basic pay as defined under section 8331(3) or 8401(4) of that title.
"(2) Limitation.-An employee's cost-of-living allowance may be considered basic pay under paragraph (1) only to the extent that, when added to the employee's locality-based comparability payments, the resulting sum does not exceed the amount of the locality-based comparability payments the employee would have received during that period for the applicable pay area if the limitation under section 1914 did not apply.
"(d) Civil Service Retirement and Disability Retirement Fund.-
"(1) Employee contributions.-A covered employee shall pay into the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Retirement Fund-
"(A) an amount equal to the difference between-
"(2) Agency contributions.-
"(A) In general.-The employing agency of a covered employee shall pay into the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Retirement Fund an amount for applicable agency contributions based on payments made under paragraph (1).
"(B) Source.-Amounts paid under this paragraph shall be contributed from the appropriation or fund used to pay the employee.
"(3) Regulations.-The Office of Personnel Management may prescribe regulations to carry out this section.
"(a) In General.-The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations to carry out this subtitle, including-
"(b) Other Pay Systems.-With the concurrence of the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, the administrator of a pay system not administered by the Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations to carry out this subtitle with respect to employees in such pay system, consistent with the regulations prescribed by the Office under subsection (a). With respect to employees not entitled to locality-based comparability payments under section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, regulations prescribed under this subsection may provide for special payments or adjustments for employees who were eligible to receive a cost-of-living allowance under section 5941 of that title on the date before the date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 28, 2009].
"(a) In General.-Except as provided by subsection (b), this subtitle (including the amendments made by this subtitle) shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 28, 2009].
"(b) Locality Pay and Schedule.-The amendments made by section 1912 and the provisions of section 1914 shall take effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2010."
Pub. L. 106–554, §1(a)(3) [title VI, §637], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763 , 2763A-165, provided that:
"(a) For purposes of this section-
"(1) the term 'comparability payment' refers to a locality-based comparability payment under section 5304 of title 5, United States Code;
"(2) the term 'President's pay agent' refers to the pay agent described in section 5302(4) of such title; and
"(3) the term 'pay locality' has the meaning given such term by section 5302(5) of such title.
"(b) Notwithstanding any provision of section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, for purposes of determining appropriate pay localities and making comparability payment recommendations, the President's pay agent may, in accordance with succeeding provisions of this section, make comparisons of General Schedule pay and non-Federal pay within any of the metropolitan statistical areas described in subsection (d)(3), using-
"(d)(1)(A) This paragraph applies with respect to the five metropolitan statistical areas described in paragraph (3) which-
"(C)(i) Any recommendations under subparagraph (B)(ii) shall be included-
Pub. L. 106–554, §1(a)(4) [div. B, title IX, §902(b)], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763 , 2763A-304, which provided that notwithstanding any other law, no officer or member of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division or Park Police was to be paid locality pay under section 5304 or 5304a of this title, at a percentage rate for the applicable locality in excess of the rate in effect for pay periods during calendar year 2000, ceased to be effective on the first day of the first pay period on or after Jan. 1, 2003, pursuant to Pub. L. 108–7, div. J, title VI, §643, Feb. 20, 2003, 117 Stat. 473 .
Pub. L. 103–329, title VI, §630(b), (c), Sept. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 2424 , provided that:
"(c) Notwithstanding section 5304(a)(3)(B) of title 5, United States Code, the annualized cost of pay adjustments made under section 5304 of such title in calendar year 1995 shall be equal to 0.6 percent of the estimated aggregate fiscal year 1995 executive branch civilian payroll-
Section 8(b) of Pub. L. 102–378 provided that: "Notwithstanding section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, for purposes of any comparability payments scheduled to take effect under such section during calendar years 1994 and 1995, respectively-
Section 529 [title III, §302] of Pub. L. 101–509, as amended by Pub. L. 102–378, §3(4), Oct. 2, 1992, 106 Stat. 1356 ; Pub. L. 103–89, §3(b)(2), Sept. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 982 , provided that:
"(a) Definitions.-For the purpose of this section-
"(1) the term 'area' means any consolidated metropolitan statistical area, primary metropolitan statistical area, or metropolitan statistical area, with at least 5,000 General Schedule employees; and
"(2) the term 'pay relative' shall have the meaning given such term under regulations prescribed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"(b) Authority.-(1) The President may establish geographic adjustments of up to 8 percent of basic pay which may be paid to each General Schedule employee whose duty station is within any area where such adjustment is needed (as determined under paragraph (2)).
"(c) Administration.-(1) An adjustment under this section shall be administered, to the extent practicable, in the same manner as locality-based comparability payments under subchapter I of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code (as amended by this Act), including in terms of-
"(d) Commencement and Termination Rules.-(1) The effective date of an adjustment under this section shall be as determined by the President, but not later than January 1, 1994.
"(B) The total rate to which subparagraph (A) applies is the sum of-
"(e) Employees Receiving Special Pay Rates.-The President (or his designated agent) shall determine what, if any, geographic adjustment shall be payable under this section in the case of an employee whose rate of pay is fixed under section 5303 of title 5, United States Code (as in effect before the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 5, 1990]), section 5305 of title 5, United States Code (as amended by section 101 of this Act), or any similar provision of law.
"(f) Effective Date.-This section shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 5, 1990]."