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28 U.S.C. § 172 — Tenure and salaries of judges
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**(a)** Each judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims shall be appointed for a term of fifteen years.
**(b)** Each judge shall receive a salary at the rate of pay, and in the same manner, as judges of the district courts of the United States.
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**(a)** Each judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims shall be appointed for a term of fifteen years.
**(b)** Each judge shall receive a salary at the rate of pay, and in the same manner, as judges of the district courts of the United States.
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(1) After considering the report and recommendations of the Commission submitted under [section 357 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section357&num=0&edition=prelim), the President shall transmit to Congress his recommendations with respect to the exact rates of pay, for offices and positions within the purview of subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), and (D) of [section 356 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section356&num=0&edition=prelim), which the President considers to be fair and reasonable in light of the Commission’s report and recommendations, the prevailing market value of the services rendered in the offices and positions involved, the overall economic condition of the country, and the fiscal condition of the Federal Government.
(2) The President shall transmit his recommendations under this section to Congress on the first Monday after January 3 of the first calendar year beginning after the date on which the Commission submits its report and recommendations to the President under [section 357 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section357&num=0&edition=prelim).
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Each judge of a district court of the United States shall receive a salary at an annual rate determined under section 225 of the Federal Salary Act of 1967 ([2 U.S.C. 351–361](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section351–361&num=0&edition=prelim)), as adjusted by [section 461 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section461&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)**
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), effective at the beginning of the first applicable pay period commencing on or after the first day of the month in which an adjustment takes effect under [section 5303 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5303&num=0&edition=prelim) in the rates of pay under the General Schedule (except as provided in subsection (b)), each salary rate which is subject to adjustment under this section shall be adjusted by an amount, rounded to the nearest multiple of $100 (or if midway between multiples of $100, to the next higher multiple of $100) equal to the percentage of such salary rate which corresponds to the most recent percentage change in the ECI (relative to the date described in the next sentence), as determined under section 704(a)(1) of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989. The appropriate date under this sentence is the first day of the fiscal year in which such adjustment in the rates of pay under the General Schedule takes effect.
(2) In no event shall the percentage adjustment taking effect under paragraph (1) in any calendar year (before rounding), in any salary rate, exceed the percentage adjustment taking effect in such calendar year under [section 5303 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5303&num=0&edition=prelim) in the rates of pay under the General Schedule.
**(b)** Subsection (a) shall not apply to the extent it would reduce the salary of any individual whose compensation may not, under section 1 of article III of the Constitution of the United States, be diminished during such individual’s continuance in office.
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**(a)** Subject to subsection (b), effective at the beginning of the first applicable pay period commencing on or after the first day of the month in which an adjustment takes effect under [section 5303 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5303&num=0&edition=prelim) in the rates of pay under the General Schedule, the annual rate of pay for positions at each level of the Executive Schedule shall be adjusted by an amount, rounded to the nearest multiple of $100 (or if midway between multiples of $100, to the next higher multiple of $100), equal to the percentage of such annual rate of pay which corresponds to the most recent percentage change in the ECI (relative to the date described in the next sentence), as determined under section 704(a)(1) of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989. The appropriate date under this sentence is the first day of the fiscal year in which such adjustment in the rates of pay under the General Schedule takes effect.
**(b)** In no event shall the percentage adjustment taking effect under subsection (a) in any calendar year (before rounding), in any rate of pay, exceed the percentage adjustment taking effect in such calendar year under section 5303 in the rates of pay under the General Schedule.
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**(a)** The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, sixteen judges who shall constitute a court of record known as the United States Court of Federal Claims. The court is declared to be a court established under article I of the Constitution of the United States.
**(b)** The President shall designate one of the judges of the Court of Federal Claims who is less than seventy years of age to serve as chief judge. The chief judge may continue to serve as such until he reaches the age of seventy years or until another judge is designated as chief judge by the President. After the designation of another judge to serve as chief judge, the former chief judge may continue to serve as a judge of the court for the balance of the term to which appointed.
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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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The principal office of the United States Court of Federal Claims shall be in the District of Columbia, but the Court of Federal Claims may hold court at such times and in such places as it may fix by rule of court. The times and places of the sessions of the Court of Federal Claims shall be prescribed with a view to securing reasonable opportunity to citizens to appear before the Court of Federal Claims with as little inconvenience and expense to citizens as is practicable.
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TITLE 28—JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
§ 172
Minor changes were made in arrangement and phrase-
ology.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1992—Pub. L. 102–572 substituted ‘‘United States
Court of Federal Claims’’ for ‘‘United States Claims
Court’’ in subsec. (a) and ‘‘Court of Federal Claims’’ for
‘‘Claims Court’’ in subsec. (b).
1982—Pub. L. 97–164 designated existing provisions as
subsec. (a), substituted ‘‘sixteen judges who shall con-
stitute a court of record known as the United States
Claims Court’’ for ‘‘a chief judge and six associate
judges who shall constitute a court of record known as
the United States Court of Claims’’ and ‘‘The court is
declared to be a court established under article I of the
Constitution of the United States’’ for ‘‘Such court is
hereby declared to be a court established under article
III of the Constitution of the United States’’ in subsec.
(a) as so designated, and added subsec. (b).
1966—Pub. L. 89–425 increased the number of associate
judges from four to six.
1954—Act Sept. 3, 1954, inserted ‘‘; character or
court’’ in section catchline.
1953—Act July 28, 1953, inserted second sentence.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
CHANGE OF NAME
Pub. L. 102–572, title IX, § 902(b), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat.
4516, provided that: ‘‘Reference in any other Federal
law [meaning any Federal law other than chapters 7, 51,
91, and 165 of this title] or any document to—
‘‘(1) the ‘United States Claims Court’ shall be
deemed to refer to the ‘United States Court of Fed-
eral Claims’; and
‘‘(2) the ‘Claims Court’ shall be deemed to refer to
the ‘Court of Federal Claims’.’’
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1992 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 102–572, title IX, § 911, Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat.
4520, provided that: ‘‘This title [see Tables for class
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