Defense and national security

Executive Order 12886: Adjustments of Rates of Pay and Allowances for the Uniformed Services

President: Bill Clinton

Set uniformed-service basic pay and subsistence and quarters allowances for 1994; later statutes and annual schedules replaced those rates.

Status: Completed/expired. Is Executive Order 12886 still in effect? No. Executive Order 12886 is completed or expired. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 12886 do?

EO 12886 implemented the 1994 uniformed-services pay adjustment authorized by Public Law 103-160. Its attached schedule changed monthly basic pay and the basic allowances for subsistence and quarters effective January 1, 1994, and superseded the corresponding 1993 schedule in EO 12826. The rates were time-specific and were replaced by later annual compensation authorities.

Administration position: The order implemented the compensation adjustment authorized for 1994. It did not establish permanent military pay rates.
SignedDecember 23, 1993
Effective dateJanuary 1, 1994
Covered itemsBasic pay, subsistence and quarters allowances

Before and after

Before the order

The corresponding EO 12826 schedule governed the earlier pay period.

After the order

The attached 1994 schedule applied until later annual statutes and presidential actions supplied new rates.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Uniformed-services pay administratorsApply the attached basic-pay and allowance schedulesFrom January 1, 1994
Defense and other uniformed servicesReplace the superseded EO 12826 scheduleFor the 1994 pay year

What happened next

EO 12886 was signed.

The adjusted rates became effective.