An executive order signed Dec. 18, 2025, sets attached schedules for certain rates of basic pay and salaries. The order was published in the Federal Register on Dec. 23, 2025.
The order covers statutory pay systems, senior executives, specified executive, legislative and judicial offices, administrative law judges, and members of the uniformed services. It also sets locality-based comparability payments. The published text places the dollar rates on schedules that appear as graphics, so those figures are not stated in the order’s prose.
Under the order, basic pay or salaries for the statutory pay systems are set on three attached schedules. Those cover the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, and schedules for the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
A separate schedule sets the ranges of basic pay for senior executives in the Senior Executive Service. Another sets basic pay or salaries for the Executive Schedule. A further schedule covers the vice president and Congress. A schedule also covers justices and judges.
The order sets monthly basic pay for members of the uniformed services, as adjusted under the cited law, and monthly pay for cadets or midshipmen. Those rates are on a schedule that takes effect Jan. 1, 2026.
The order directs the director of the Office of Personnel Management to assess whether to provide an increase of as much as 3.8 percent in total, including the increase under the statutory pay schedules, for certain federal civilian law enforcement personnel. The director is to decide that after coordinating with agencies and in line with the cited pay law.
Locality-based comparability payments are to be paid under an attached schedule. The order says the director shall take the actions needed to carry out those payments and publish notice of them in the Federal Register. Rates of basic pay for administrative law judges are set on another attached schedule.
The schedules other than the uniformed services schedule take effect with the opening day of the earliest pay period that applies and that starts Jan. 1, 2026, or later. The order supersedes Executive Order 14132 of Dec. 23, 2024, also titled adjustments of certain rates of pay, as of the effective dates in this order.