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Executive Order 13291: Further Adjustment of Certain Rates of Pay

President: George W. Bush

Adjusted specified federal civilian and uniformed-service pay rates under the statutory pay-setting framework.

Status: Superseded.

Is Executive Order 13291 still in effect? No. Completed; superseded by later annual pay orders.

What does Executive Order 13291 do?

The order assigned these duties: Office of Personnel Management, Department of Defense and agency payroll offices — Adjusted specified federal civilian and uniformed-service pay rates under the statutory pay-setting framework.

Checked the 2003 further pay adjustment against the signed order and later salary schedules. The change is historical and should not be read as a present standalone rate schedule.

Administration position: The order’s policy rationale is described in its text and administration records. Implementation and legal observations below are based on the cited official sources.
SignedMarch 21, 2003
IssuerPresident George W. Bush
Lead agencies or officialsOffice of Personnel Management, Department of Defense and agency payroll offices
Express timingEffective at the start of the applicable pay period in 2003

Before and after

Before the order

Pay tables required an annual presidential adjustment under title 5 and related military-pay statutes.

After the order

Agencies applied the adjusted tables to payroll and personnel actions; later annual executive orders superseded the rates.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Office of Personnel Management, Department of Defense and agency payroll officesAdjusted specified federal civilian and uniformed-service pay rates under the statutory pay-setting framework.Effective at the start of the applicable pay period in 2003

What happened next

EO 13291 signed.

2004 onward — Later annual pay orders replaced the rates set by EO 13291.