The Clinton Administration has announced that members of the Senior Executive Service, administrative law judges and other categories of high-ranking federal employees will receive the same locality pay increases that employees under the General Schedule are slated to receive next year.
The President's Pay Agent, made up of the Labor Secretary and the directors of the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget, announced the decision in a memorandum to the heads of federal departments and agencies last week.
Senior executives will receive the same locality pay rates as all other employees in a given locality. But the actual rate of pay for any executive is capped at Level III ($123,100) of the Executive Schedule.
The Senior Executives Association had urged that the Administration both extend locality pay to senior executives and grant them the basic pay increase that employees under the General Schedule have already been guaranteed for 1997. The President has yet to make a decision on the base pay question.
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