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Executive Order 13332: Further Adjustment of Certain Rates of Pay

President: George W. Bush

Superseded EO 13322 and set a retroactive 2.7% General Schedule base increase for 2004; OPM reported a 4.1% overall average including locality pay.

Status: Superseded. Is Executive Order 13332 still in effect? No. Executive Order 13332 was superseded. See Executive Order 13368: Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay.

What does Executive Order 13332 do?

EO 13332 was signed on March 3, 2004 and published on March 8, after Congress enacted the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004. It replaced the initial 2004 pay schedules in EO 13322 with a 2.7% across-the-board increase in statutory basic pay and updated locality payments. OPM reported a 4.1% overall average compared with 2003 pay, not a uniform individual raise. The order made civilian schedules effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2004, while its uniformed-service schedule took effect on January 1. EO 13368 later superseded the 2004 order for 2005 schedules.

Administration position: The 4.1% figure is OPM’s overall average compared with 2003; it is not the base schedule adjustment or an individual entitlement. OPM reported a 2.7% across-the-board base increase and separate locality amounts.
SignedMarch 3, 2004
PublishedMarch 8, 2004 (69 FR 10891)
Authority named5 U.S.C. 5303(a), 5304 and Public Law 108-199
Lead implementing agencyOffice of Personnel Management
SupersedesEO 13322
Superseded byEO 13368, signed December 30, 2004

Before and after

Before the order

EO 13322 had initially put a 1.5% base increase and smaller locality allocations into the January 2004 schedules. Congress enacted Public Law 108-199 on January 23.

After the order

EO 13332 expressly superseded EO 13322 and issued replacement schedules. OPM implemented a 2.7% base increase and locality allocations totalling approximately 1.4% of payroll, producing a 4.1% overall average.

For covered civilian schedules, the order applied from the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2004; individual results varied by area, grade and pay cap. EO 13368 later set the next annual schedules.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
PresidentIssued replacement statutory and locality pay schedules and superseded EO 13322March 3, 2004
Office of Personnel ManagementImplemented new tables and published a locality-payment noticeMarch–May 2004
Employing agenciesApplied the replacement civilian schedules to the relevant January pay periodRetroactive under §7

What happened next

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004, enacted.

EO 13332 signed; §8 superseded EO 13322.

EO 13332 published at 69 FR 10891.

OPM published notice of the locality-payment schedules.

EO 13368 signed, superseding EO 13332 for the next annual schedule.

Guide rechecked against the signed orders, OPM memoranda, official notice and Archives disposition table.