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5 U.S.C. § 5925 — Post differentials
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**(a)** A post differential may be granted on the basis of conditions of environment which differ substantially from conditions of environment in the continental United States and warrant additional pay as a recruitment and retention incentive. A post differential may be granted to an employee officially stationed in the United States who is on extended detail in a foreign area. A post differential under this subsection may not exceed 35 percent of the rate of basic pay.
**(b)** Any employee granted a differential under subsection (a) of this section may be granted an additional differential for an assignment to a post determined to have especially adverse conditions of environment which warrant additional pay as a recruitment and retention incentive for the filling of positions at that post. An additional differential for any employee under this subsection—
(1) may be paid for each assignment to a post determined to have such conditions;
(2) may be paid periodically or in a lump sum; and
(3) may not exceed 15 percent of the rate of basic pay of that employee for the period served under that assignment.
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**(a)** A post differential may be granted on the basis of conditions of environment which differ substantially from conditions of environment in the continental United States and warrant additional pay as a recruitment and retention incentive. A post differential may be granted to an employee officially stationed in the United States who is on extended detail in a foreign area. A post differential under this subsection may not exceed 35 percent of the rate of basic pay.
**(b)** Any employee granted a differential under subsection (a) of this section may be granted an additional differential for an assignment to a post determined to have especially adverse conditions of environment which warrant additional pay as a recruitment and retention incentive for the filling of positions at that post. An additional differential for any employee under this subsection—
(1) may be paid for each assignment to a post determined to have such conditions;
(2) may be paid periodically or in a lump sum; and
(3) may not exceed 15 percent of the rate of basic pay of that employee for the period served under that assignment.
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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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An employee serving in a foreign area may be granted a danger pay allowance on the basis of civil insurrection, civil war, terrorism, or wartime conditions which threaten physical harm or imminent danger to the health or well-being of the employee. A danger pay allowance may not exceed 35 percent of the basic pay of the employee, except that if an employee is granted an additional differential under [section 5925(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5925/b&num=0&edition=prelim) with respect to an assignment, the sum of that additional differential and any danger pay allowance granted to the employee with respect to that assignment may not exceed 35 percent of the basic pay of the employee. The presence of nonessential personnel or dependents shall not preclude payment of an allowance under this section. In each instance where an allowance under this section is initiated or terminated, the Secretary of State shall inform the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate of the action taken and the circumstances justifying it.
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**(a) Enlisted personnel** Gross income does not include compensation received for active service as a member below the grade of commissioned officer in the Armed Forces of the United States for any month during any part of which such member—
(1) served in a combat zone, or
(2) was hospitalized as a result of wounds, disease, or injury incurred while serving in a combat zone; but this paragraph shall not apply for any month beginning more than 2 years after the date of the termination of combatant activities in such zone.
**(b) Commissioned officers** Gross income does not include so much of the compensation as does not exceed the maximum enlisted amount received for active service as a commissioned officer in the Armed Forces of the United States for any month during any part of which such officer—
(1) served in a combat zone, or
(2) was hospitalized as a result of wounds, disease, or injury incurred while serving in a combat zone; but this paragraph shall not apply for any month beginning more than 2 years after the date of the termination of combatant activities in such zone.
With respect to service in the combat zone designated for purposes of the Vietnam conflict, paragraph (2) shall not apply to any month after January 1978.
**(c) Definitions** For purposes of this section—
(1) The term “commissioned officer” does not include a commissioned warrant officer.
(2) The term “combat zone” means any area which the President of the United States by Executive Order designates, for purposes of this section or corresponding provisions of prior income tax laws, as an area in which Armed Forces of the United States are or have engaged in combat.
(3) Service is performed in a combat zone only if performed on or after the date designated by the President by Executive O
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**(a) In General.—** The following definitions apply in this title:
(1) The term “United States”, in a geographic sense, means the States and the District of Columbia.
(2) Repealed. Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title X, § 1057(a)(1), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3440.]
(3) The term “possessions” includes the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Guano Islands, so long as they remain possessions, but does not include any Commonwealth.
(4) The term “armed forces” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard.
(5) The term “uniformed services” means—
(A) the armed forces;
(B) the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and
(C) the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service.
(6) The term “department”, when used with respect to a military department, means the executive part of the department and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of the department. When used with respect to the Department of Defense, such term means the executive part of the department, including the executive parts of the military departments, and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of Defense, including those of the military departments.
(7) The term “executive part of the department” means the executive part of the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, or Department of the Air Force, as the case may be, at the seat of government.
(8) The term “military departments” means the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force.
(9) The term
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**(a)** The head of an Executive agency may pay an employee hostile fire pay at the rate of $150 for any month in which the employee was—
(1) subject to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines;
(2) on duty in an area in which the employee was in imminent danger of being exposed to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines and in which, during the period on duty in that area, other employees were subject to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines; or
(3) killed, injured, or wounded by hostile fire, explosion of a hostile mine, or any other hostile action.
**(b)** An employee covered by subsection (a)(3) who is hospitalized for the treatment of his or her injury or wound may be paid hostile fire pay under this section for not more than three additional months during which the employee is so hospitalized.
**(c)** An employee may be paid hostile fire pay under this section in addition to other pay and allowances to which entitled, except that an employee may not be paid hostile fire pay under this section for periods of time during which the employee receives payment under [section 5925 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5925&num=0&edition=prelim) because of exposure to political violence or payment under [section 5928 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5928&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 5—GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
§ 5925
education away from post is involved, official assign-
ment to service in such area or areas)’’ for ‘‘depend-
ents’’, in subpar. (A) substituted ‘‘United States (in-
cluding such educational services as are provided by
the States under the Individuals with Disabilities Edu-
cation Act)’’ for ‘‘United States’’, and in subpar. (B)
substituted ‘‘postsecondary educational institution
education (other than a program of post-baccalaureate
education)’’ for ‘‘undergraduate college education’’ in
two places and inserted at end provision defining ‘‘edu-
cational institution’’ for purposes of subpar. (B).
1990—Par. (3). Pub. L. 101–510 inserted at end ‘‘Not-
withstanding section 1217(d) of the Panama Canal Act
of 1979 (22 U.S.C. 3657(d)), for the purposes of this para-
graph, the term ‘foreign area’ includes the Republic of
Panama.’’
1986—Par. (2)(A). Pub. L. 99–251 inserted ‘‘, its terri-
tories or possessions, the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico, or the areas and installations in the Republic of
Panama made available to the United States pursuant
to the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 and related agree-
ments’’.
1982—Par. (4)(A). Pub. L. 97–258 substituted ‘‘section
3324(a) and (b)’’ for ‘‘section 529’’.
1980—Par. (3). Pub. L. 96–465, § 2307, inserted ‘‘or au-
thorized’’ after ‘‘compelled’’ and ‘‘or who requests such
an allowance because of special needs or hardship in-
volving the employee or the employee’s spouse or de-
pendents’’ after ‘‘of the Government,’’.
Par. (4)(B). Pub. L. 96–465, § 2308, substituted ‘‘one an-
nual trip each way for each dependent’’ for ‘‘(i) in the
case of dependents traveling to obtain secondary edu-
cation, one annual trip, or in the case of dependents
traveling to obtain underg
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