[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 112 (Friday, June 9, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36743-36744]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-14625]
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
January 2000 Pay Adjustments
AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The President adjusted the rates of basic pay and locality
payments for certain categories of Federal employees in January 2000.
This notice documents those pay adjustments for the public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Denise Jenkins, Office of Compensation
Administration, Workforce Compensation and Performance Service, Office
of Personnel Management, (202) 606-2858, FAX (202) 606-0824, or email
to [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 21, 1999, the President signed
Executive Order 13144 (64 FR 72237, December 23, 1999), which
established the January 2000 across-the-board adjustments for the
statutory pay systems and the 2000 locality pay adjustments for General
Schedule (GS) employees in the 48 contiguous States and the District of
Columbia. The President made these adjustments consistent with section
646 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2000
(Public Law 106-58, September 29, 1999). Schedule 1 of Executive Order
13144 provides the rates for the 2000 General Schedule and reflects a
3.8 percent general increase. Executive Order 13144 also includes the
percentage amounts of the 2000 locality payments. (See Section 5 and
Schedule 9 of Executive Order 13144.) The publication of this notice
satisfies the requirement in section 5(b) of Executive Order 13144 that
the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) publish appropriate notice of
the 2000 locality payments in the Federal Register.
GS employees receive locality payments under 5 U.S.C. 5304.
Locality payments apply in the 48 contiguous States and the District of
Columbia. In 2000, locality payments ranging from 6.78 percent to 15.01
percent apply to GS employees in 32 locality pay areas. These 2000
locality pay percentages, which replaced the locality pay percentages
that were applicable in 1999, became effective on the first day of the
first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2000. An
employee's locality-adjusted annual rate of pay is computed by
increasing his or her scheduled annual rate of basic pay (as defined in
5 U.S.C. 5302(8) and 5 CFR 531.602) by the applicable locality pay
percentage. (See 5 CFR 531.604 and 531.605.)
On December 7, 1999, the President's Pay Agent extended the 2000
locality-based comparability payments to the same Governmentwide and
single-agency categories of non-GS employees that received the 1999
locality payments. The Governmentwide categories include members of the
Senior Executive Service (SES), the Foreign Service, the Senior Foreign
Service, employees in senior-level (SL) and scientific or professional
(ST) positions, administrative law judges, and members of Boards of
Contract Appeals.
Executive Order 13144 establishes the new Executive Schedule, which
incorporates the 3.4 percent increase required under 5 U.S.C. 5318. The
Executive order also reflects a decision by the President to increase
the rates of basic pay for members of the Senior Executive Service
(SES) by 3.8 percent (rounded to the nearest $100) at SES levels ES-1
through ES-3 and by 3.6 percent (rounded to the nearest $100) at ES-4.
Since the maximum rate of basic pay for SES members is limited by law
to the rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule, which was increased
to $122,400, the rates of basic pay for levels ES-5 and ES-6 were
increased by approximately 3.4 percent (rounded to the nearest $100).
Public Law 106-97 of November 12, 1999, amended 5 U.S.C. 5372 to
provide the President with authority to adjust the rates of basic pay
for administrative law judges (ALJs) at the time of the pay increase
for the statutory pay systems. The Executive order reflects a decision
by the President to increase the rates of basic pay for ALJs at level
AL-2 and AL-3 by 3.8 percent (rounded to the nearest $100). The
President increased the rate of basic pay for AL-1 by approximately 3.4
percent (rounded to the nearest $100), since that rate is capped at the
rate of basic pay for level IV of the Executive Schedule.
The rates of basic pay for Board of Contract Appeals (BCA) members
are calculated as a percentage of the rate for level IV of the
Executive Schedule. (See 5 U.S.C. 5372a.) Therefore, BCA rates of basic
pay were increased by approximately 3.4 percent. Also, the maximum rate
of basic pay for senior-level (SL) and scientific or professional (ST)
positions was increased by approximately 3.4 percent (to $122,400)
because it is tied to the rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule.
The minimum rate of basic pay for SL/ST positions is equal to 120
percent of the minimum rate of basic pay for GS-15, and thus was
increased by 3.8 percent (to $93,137). (See 5 U.S.C. 5376.)
OPM published ``Salary Tables for 2000'' (OPM Doc. 124-48-6) in
March 2000. This document provides complete salary tables incorporating
the 2000 pay adjustments, information on general pay administration
matters, locality pay area definitions, Internal Revenue Service
withholding tables, and other related information. The rates of pay
shown in ``Salary Tables for 2000'' are the official rates of pay for
affected employees and are hereby incorporated as part of this notice.
You may purchase copies of ``Salary Tables for 2000'' from the
Government Printing Office (GPO) by calling (202) 512-1800 or FAX (202)
512-2250. You may order copies directly from GPO on the Internet at
http://orders.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/sale/prf/prf.html. In addition,
you can find pay tables on OPM's Internet website at http://www.opm.gov/oca/payrates/index.htm.
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Office of Personnel Management.
Janice R. Lachance,
Director.
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