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22 U.S.C. § 3963 — Foreign Service Schedule
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The President shall establish a Foreign Service Schedule which shall consist of 9 salary classes and which shall apply to members of the Service who are citizens of the United States and for whom salary rates are not otherwise provided for by this subchapter. The maximum salary rate for the highest class established under this section, which shall be designated class 1, may not exceed the maximum rate of basic pay prescribed for GS–15 of the General Schedule under [section 5332 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5332&num=0&edition=prelim). Salary rates established under this section shall be adjusted in accordance with [section 5303 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5303&num=0&edition=prelim).
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The President shall establish a Foreign Service Schedule which shall consist of 9 salary classes and which shall apply to members of the Service who are citizens of the United States and for whom salary rates are not otherwise provided for by this subchapter. The maximum salary rate for the highest class established under this section, which shall be designated class 1, may not exceed the maximum rate of basic pay prescribed for GS–15 of the General Schedule under [section 5332 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5332&num=0&edition=prelim). Salary rates established under this section shall be adjusted in accordance with [section 5303 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5303&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)** The Congress finds that—
(1) a career foreign service, characterized by excellence and professionalism, is essential in the national interest to assist the President and the Secretary of State in conducting the foreign affairs of the United States;
(2) the scope and complexity of the foreign affairs of the Nation have heightened the need for a professional foreign service that will serve the foreign affairs interests of the United States in an integrated fashion and that can provide a resource of qualified personnel for the President, the Secretary of State, and the agencies concerned with foreign affairs;
(3) the Foreign Service of the United States, established under the Act of May 24, 1924 (commonly known as the Rogers Act) and continued by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, must be preserved, strengthened, and improved in order to carry out its mission effectively in response to the complex challenges of modern diplomacy and international relations;
(4) the members of the Foreign Service should be representative of the American people, aware of the principles and history of the United States and informed of current concerns and trends in American life, knowledgeable of the affairs, cultures, and languages of other countries, and available to serve in assignments throughout the world; and
(5) the Foreign Service should be operated on the basis of merit principles.
**(b)** The objective of this chapter is to strengthen and improve the Foreign Service of the United States by—
(1) assuring, in accordance with merit principles, admission through impartial and rigorous examination, acquisition of career status only by those who have demonstrated their fitness through successful completion of probationary assignments, effective career development, advancement
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Until converted under the provisions of this subchapter, any individual who is in the Foreign Service before February 15, 1981, and is serving under an appointment as a Foreign Service officer, Foreign Service information officer, Foreign Service Reserve officer with limited or unlimited tenure, or Foreign Service staff officer or employee, shall be treated for purposes of salary, allowances, and other matters as if such individual had been converted under section 4152 or 4153 of this title, as the case may be, on February 15, 1981, except that any adjustment of salary under this section shall take effect—
(1) in the case of an individual who is in the Foreign Service on October 17, 1980, on the first day of the first pay period which begins on or after October 1, 1980, and
(2) in the case of an individual who is appointed to the Foreign Service after October 17, 1980, on the date such appointment becomes effective.
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**(a)** Effective as of the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1 of each calendar year, the rates of basic pay for each statutory pay system shall be increased by the percentage (rounded to the nearest one-tenth of 1 percent) equal to one-half of 1 percentage point less than the percentage by which the ECI for the base quarter of the year before the preceding calendar year exceeds the ECI for the base quarter of the second year before the preceding calendar year (if at all).
**(b)**
(1) If, because of national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare, the President should consider the pay adjustment which would otherwise be required by subsection (a) in any year to be inappropriate, the President shall—
(A) prepare and transmit to Congress before September 1 of the preceding calendar year a plan for such alternative pay adjustments as he considers appropriate, together with the reasons therefor; and
(B) adjust the rates of pay of each statutory pay system, in accordance with such plan, effective on the same day as the increase under subsection (a) would otherwise take effect.
(2) In evaluating an economic condition affecting the general welfare under this subsection, the President shall consider pertinent economic measures including, but not limited to, the Indexes of Leading Economic Indicators, the Gross National Product, the unemployment rate, the budget deficit, the Consumer Price Index, the Producer Price Index, the Employment Cost Index, and the Implicit Price Deflator for Personal Consumption Expenditures.
(3) The President shall include in the report to Congress under paragraph (1)(A) his assessment of the impact that the alternative pay adjustments under this subsection will have on
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**(a)**
(1) The General Schedule, the symbol for which is “GS”, is the basic pay schedule for positions to which this subchapter applies. Each employee to whom this subchapter applies is entitled to basic pay in accordance with the General Schedule.
(2) The General Schedule is a schedule of annual rates of basic pay, consisting of 15 grades, designated “GS–1” through “GS–15”, consecutively, with 10 rates of pay for each such grade. The rates of pay of the General Schedule are adjusted in accordance with section 5303.
**(b)** When payment is made on the basis of an hourly, daily, weekly, or biweekly rate, the rate is computed from the appropriate annual rate of basic pay named by subsection (a) of this section in accordance with the rules prescribed by [section 5504(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5504/b&num=0&edition=prelim).
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It is the policy of Congress that Federal pay fixing for employees under the General Schedule be based on the principles that—
(1) there be equal pay for substantially equal work within each local pay area;
(2) within each local pay area, pay distinctions be maintained in keeping with work and performance distinctions;
(3) Federal pay rates be comparable with non-Federal pay rates for the same levels of work within the same local pay area; and
(4) any existing pay disparities between Federal and non-Federal employees should be completely eliminated.
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The President by and with the consent of the Senate shall designate from time to time to attend a specified session or specified sessions of the General Conference of the Organization not to exceed five representatives of the United States and such number of alternates not to exceed five as he may determine consistent with the rules of procedure of the General Conference: Provided, however, That each such representative and each such alternate must be an American citizen. One of the representatives shall be designated as the senior representative. Such representatives and alternates shall each be entitled to receive compensation at such rates provided for members of the Senior Foreign Service under [section 3962 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3962&num=0&edition=prelim), or provided for Foreign Service officers under [section 3963 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3963&num=0&edition=prelim), as the President may determine, for such periods as the President may specify, except that no Member of the Senate or House of Representatives or officer of the United States who is designated under this section as a representative of the United States or as an alternate to attend any specified session or specified sessions of the General Conference shall be entitled to receive such compensation. Whenever a representative of the United States is elected by the General Conference to serve on the Executive Board, or is elected President of the General Conference and thus becomes an ex officio adviser to the Executive Board, under provision of article V of the constitution of the Organization, the President may extend the above provisions for compensation to such represen
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**(a) Effective date** A cost-of-living annuity increase shall become effective under this section on the effective date of each such increase under [section 8340(b) of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section8340/b&num=0&edition=prelim). Each such increase shall be applied to each annuity payable from the Fund under this part which has a commencing date not later than the effective date of the increase.
**(b) Applicability of increases under other provisions of law** Each annuity increase under this section shall be identical to the corresponding percentage increase under [section 8340(b) of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section8340/b&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Eligibility for increases** Eligibility for an annuity increase under this section shall be governed by the commencing date of each annuity payable from the Fund under this part as of the effective date of an increase except as follows:
(1) The first increase (if any) made under this section to an annuity which is payable from the Fund to a participant or to the surviving spouse or former spouse of a deceased participant who died in service or a deceased annuitant whose annuity was not increased under this section, shall be equal to the product (adjusted to the nearest ⅒ of 1 percent) of—
(A) 1⁄12 of the applicable percent change computed under subsection (b) of this section, multiplied by
(B) the number of months (counting any portion of a month as a month)—
(i) for which the annuity was payable from the Fund before the effective date of the increase, or
(ii) in the case of a surviving spouse or former spouse of a deceased annuitant whose annuity has not been so increased, since the annuity was first
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**(a)** Not later than 120 days after February 15, 1981, the Secretary shall, in accordance with [section 4156 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section4156&num=0&edition=prelim), convert to the appropriate class in the Foreign Service Schedule established under [section 3963 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3963&num=0&edition=prelim) those individuals in the Foreign Service who are serving immediately before February 15, 1981, under appointments at or below class 3 of the schedule established under section 412 or 414 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, or at any class in the schedule established under section 415 of such Act, as—
(1) Foreign Service officers, or
(2) Foreign Service Reserve officers with limited or unlimited tenure, and Foreign Service staff officers or employees, who the Secretary determines are available for worldwide assignment.
**(b)** Not later than 3 years after February 15, 1981, Foreign Service Reserve officers and staff officers and employees who the Secretary determines under subsection (a)(2) are not available for worldwide assignment shall also be converted, in accordance with [section 4156 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section4156&num=0&edition=prelim), to the appropriate class in the Foreign Service Schedule established under [section 3963 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3963&num=0&edition=prelim) if—
(1) the Secretary certifies that there is a need for their services in the Foreign Service; and
(2) they agree in writing to accept availability for worldwide assignment as a condition of continued employment.
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For the purpose of this subchapter—
(1) the term “statutory pay system” means a pay system under—
(A) subchapter III, relating to the General Schedule;
(B) section 403 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, relating to the Foreign Service of the United States; or
(C) chapter 74 of title 38, relating to the Veterans Health Administration (other than a position subject to [section 7451 of title 38](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section7451&num=0&edition=prelim));
(2) the term “ECI” means the Employment Cost Index (wages and salaries, private industry workers) published quarterly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics;
(3) the “base quarter” for any year is the 3-month period ending on September 30 of such year;
(4) the term “pay agent” means the agent designated by the President under section 5304(d)(1);
(5) the term “locality” or “pay locality” means any locality, as established or modified under section 5304;
(6) the term “pay disparity”, as used with respect to a locality, means the extent to which rates of pay payable under the General Schedule are generally lower than the rates paid for the same levels of work by non-Federal workers in the same locality; except as otherwise required in this subchapter, a pay disparity shall be expressed as a single percentage which, if uniformly applied to employees within the locality who are receiving rates of pay under the General Schedule, would cause the rates payable to such employees to become substantially equal (when considered in the aggregate) to the rates paid to non-Federal workers for the same levels of work in the same locality;
(7) the term “comparability payment” means a payment payable under section 5304;
(8) the term “rates of pay under the General Schedule”, “rates o
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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
§ 3964
in section 5307(d)(1) of title 5 for members of
the Senior Executive Service.
(b) Career appointees in Senior Executive Serv-
ice accepting limited appointment in Senior
Foreign Service; adjustment
(1) An individual who is a career appointee in
the Senior Executive Service receiving basic pay
at one of the rates payable under section 5382 of
title 5 and who accepts a limited appointment in
the Senior Foreign Service in a salary class for
which the basic salary rate is less than such
basic rate of pay, shall be paid a salary at his or
her former basic rate of pay (with adjustments
as provided in paragraph (2)) until the salary for
his or her salary class in the Senior Foreign
Service equals or exceeds the salary payable to
such individual under this subsection.
(2) The salary paid to an individual under this
subsection shall be adjusted by 50 percent of
each adjustment, which takes effect after the
appointment of such individual to the Senior
Foreign Service, in the basic rate of pay at
which that individual was paid under section
5382 of title 5 immediately prior to such appoint-
ment.
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 402, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat.
2087; Pub. L. 97–241, title I, § 124, Aug. 24, 1982, 96
Stat. 281; Pub. L. 108–447, div. B, title IV, § 412(a),
Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 2905.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
Level II of the Executive Schedule, referred to in sub-
sec. (a)(3)(A), is set out in section 5313 of Title 5, Gov-
ernment Organization and Employees.
AMENDMENTS
2004—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 108–447, § 412(a)(1), sub-
stituted ‘‘The President shall also prescribe ranges of
basic salary rates for each class. Except as provided in
paragraph (3), basic salary rates for
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