Defense and national security

Executive Order 13594: Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

President: Barack Obama

Set 2012 military pay and selected federal executive, judicial and locality-pay schedules.

Status: Superseded. Is Executive Order 13594 still in effect? No. Executive Order 13594 was superseded. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13594 do?

EO 13594 was the annual pay-setting order for calendar year 2012. It published statutory military basic-pay tables, executive and judicial salary schedules and locality percentages while continuing the general freeze on many civilian base salaries. Payroll offices applied the schedules at the first applicable pay periods. Each later year’s statute and presidential order replaced these amounts, so the order is now only a historical pay record.

SignedDecember 19, 2011
Pay year2012
Military increase1.6 percent statutory adjustment

Before and after

Before the order

2011 schedules and a civilian pay freeze governed federal payroll.

After the order

New 2012 military tables and designated executive, judicial and locality rates took effect for that year.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
OPM and payroll agenciesImplement civilian and locality schedulesCompleted
Defense DepartmentImplement military basic-pay tablesCompleted
AgenciesApply later annual pay ordersContinuing

What happened next

EO 13594 signed.

Military pay schedules generally took effect.