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Executive Order 13249: Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

President: George W. Bush

Set the 2002 pay schedules for the General Schedule, Foreign Service, Veterans Health Administration, Senior Executive Service, Executive Schedule, Vice President and Congress, federal judges, uniformed services and administrative law judges, including locality pay.

Status: Superseded.

Is Executive Order 13249 still in effect? No. Superseded December 31, 2002; 2002 schedules completed.

What does Executive Order 13249 do?

The order assigned these duties: Office of Personnel Management — Implement and publish the locality-based payments; Federal payroll offices — Apply the attached civilian, executive, judicial and administrative-law-judge schedules.

Checked the attached 2002 pay schedules against OPM’s contemporaneous implementation guidance and successor EO 13282. Reclassified the annual schedules as completed and superseded rather than an order with an unresolved present status.

SignedDecember 28, 2001
IssuerPresident George W. Bush
Lead agencies or officialsOffice of Personnel Management, employing agencies, State Department, Veterans Affairs, Defense Department and payroll offices
Express timingUniformed-service schedule effective January 1, 2002; other schedules from the first applicable pay period beginning on or after that date

Before and after

Before the order

EO 13182 supplied the previous annual schedules, while statutes required or authorized the 2002 adjustments.

After the order

OPM issued government-wide implementation guidance and agencies applied the attached tables during 2002. EO 13282 established the next annual schedules and superseded EO 13249 at year end.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Office of Personnel ManagementImplement and publish the locality-based paymentsFor the first applicable 2002 pay period
Federal payroll officesApply the attached civilian, executive, judicial and administrative-law-judge schedulesDuring the covered 2002 pay periods
Uniformed servicesApply the attached monthly basic-pay scheduleFrom January 1, 2002

What happened next

EO 13249 signed.

OPM issued guidance for the January 2002 pay adjustments.

The uniformed-services schedule took effect.

EO 13282 supplied the 2003 schedules and superseded this order.