Justice, crime and public safety

Executive Order 12990: Adjustments of Rates of Pay and Allowances for the Uniformed Services, Amendment to Executive Order No. 12984

President: Bill Clinton

Amended the 1996 pay order to revise specified uniformed-service pay and allowance schedules.

Status: Superseded. Is Executive Order 12990 still in effect? No. Executive Order 12990 was superseded. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 12990 do?

EO 12990 replaced section 4 and Schedule 8 of the 1996 pay order, EO 12984, with revised uniformed-service basic pay, subsistence, quarters and cadet or midshipman pay schedules. Although signed on February 29, the order expressly made the adjusted rates effective from January 1, 1996. The official 1996 U.S. Code notes record this adjustment alongside the 1997 rates established by EO 13033. This was a change to one annual schedule, not a permanent rate for every service member.

Administration position: The order adjusted one annual military-pay schedule. It did not set today’s pay or permanently alter the statutory pay system.
SignedFebruary 29, 1996
Rates effectiveJanuary 1, 1996
Parent order provisions supersededSection 4 and Schedule 8 of EO 12984

Before and after

Before the order

EO 12984 contained the original 1996 uniformed-service rates.

After the order

The corrected rates applied for the remainder of the relevant cycle.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Defense and uniformed-service payroll officesApply the amended schedules1996 cycle

What happened next

The adjusted rates were made effective.

EO 12990 replaced the military-pay provisions of EO 12984.

EO 13033 prescribed the next annual schedules.