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Executive Order 13322: Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

President: George W. Bush

Set an initial 1.5% General Schedule base adjustment for January 2004, with roughly 0.5% of payroll for locality changes; EO 13332 later superseded it.

Status: Superseded. Is Executive Order 13322 still in effect? No. Executive Order 13322 was superseded. See Executive Order 13332: Further Adjustment of Certain Rates of Pay.

What does Executive Order 13322 do?

Signed on December 30, 2003 and published on January 2, 2004, EO 13322 set 2004 pay schedules for the General Schedule, Foreign Service, some Veterans Health Administration staff and other listed positions. OPM said the initial across-the-board base adjustment was 1.5%, with an approximately 0.5%-of-payroll locality component—about a 2.0% overall average, not an identical raise for each employee. Congress then enacted the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004. EO 13332 superseded this order on March 3 and set a retroactive higher 2004 schedule.

SignedDecember 30, 2003
PublishedJanuary 2, 2004 (69 FR 231)
Authority named5 U.S.C. 5303(b), 5304 and related schedule statutes
Lead implementing agencyOffice of Personnel Management
Superseded byEO 13332, signed March 3, 2004

Before and after

Before the order

The 2003 pay schedules were the operative prior-year baseline. The President’s August 2003 alternative plan proposed smaller 2004 adjustments than the statutory formula.

After the order

EO 13322 initially implemented a 1.5% statutory-system base increase and updated locality schedules for January 2004; OPM described roughly 0.5% of GS payroll for locality changes.

Following the January 23, 2004 appropriations act, EO 13332 superseded EO 13322 and applied a 2.7% base increase and a 4.1% overall average retroactively to the first applicable pay period in January.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
PresidentSet 2004 statutory pay and locality schedules under cited pay statutesSigned December 30, 2003
Office of Personnel ManagementPublished implementation memorandum and civilian salary tablesInitial January 2004 pay period
PresidentIssued EO 13332, expressly superseding this order after the appropriations actMarch 3, 2004

What happened next

EO 13322 signed; OPM issued its initial implementation memorandum.

EO 13322 published at 69 FR 231.

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004, enacted with a higher average 2004 adjustment.

EO 13332 signed and expressly superseded EO 13322, with pay schedules effective from the applicable January pay period.

Source-led review checked the two signed orders, OPM memoranda and official disposition table.