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Executive Order 13420: Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

President: George W. Bush

Set a 1.7% statutory base-pay increase for 2007; OPM reported a 2.2% overall average including locality pay. EO 13454 later superseded it.

Status: Superseded. Is Executive Order 13420 still in effect? No. Executive Order 13420 was superseded. See Executive Order 13454: Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay.

What does Executive Order 13420 do?

Signed on December 21, 2006 and published on December 26, 2006, EO 13420 set 2007 pay schedules for the General Schedule, Foreign Service, certain Veterans Health Administration staff, the Senior Executive Service and other listed positions. OPM reported a 1.7% base adjustment and locality increases costing about 0.5% of payroll, for a 2.2% overall average. The 0.5% is an allocation across payroll, not an extra half percentage point for every worker. OPM's civilian tables generally took effect with the pay period starting January 7, 2007. EO 13454 later superseded this annual schedule.

SignedDecember 21, 2006
PublishedDecember 26, 2006
Authority named5 U.S.C. 5303(a), 5304a and the schedule statutes cited in the order
Lead implementing agencyOffice of Personnel Management
General Schedule base adjustment1.7%
OPM overall average2.2%
SupersedesEO 13393
Superseded byEO 13454

Before and after

Before the order

EO 13393 prescribed the preceding annual pay schedules. Congress and the cited pay statutes supplied the terms for the 2007 adjustment.

After the order

EO 13420 issued new statutory, locality and other attached pay schedules for 2007; section 8 expressly superseded EO 13393.

Section 7 set separate dates: congressional rates in Schedule 6 from February 16, 2007; Schedule 7 continued the existing judicial rates; uniformed-service Schedule 8 from January 1; other schedules from the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1.

EO 13454 signed on January 4, 2008 later replaced these annual schedules.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
PresidentIssued 2007 pay schedules and superseded EO 13393December 21, 2006
Office of Personnel ManagementIssued implementing guidance and civilian salary tablesDecember 21, 2006
Employing agenciesApplied the covered civilian schedules according to their effective datesJanuary 7, 2007

What happened next

EO 13420 signed; OPM issued implementation guidance.

EO 13420 published in the Federal Register.

First generally applicable civilian pay period began.

EO 13454 signed, superseding this annual schedule.

Guide rechecked against the signed orders and OPM implementation memorandum.