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Order Code 98-53 GOV
Updated January 10, 2003
CRS Report for Congress
Received through the CRS Web
Salaries of Federal Officials:
A Fact Sheet
Sharon S. Gressle
Specialist in American National Government
Government and Finance Division
The Ethics Reform Act of 1989 provides for an annual salary adjustment for all
positions on the Executive Schedule as well as for Members and leaders of the Senate and
the House of Representatives (103 Stat. 1716, at 1769). Adjustments are based on the
percent of change in the private sector wages and salaries element of the Employment
Cost Index (ECI) minus 0.5%. They are to go into effect at the same time as, and at a rate
no greater than, the base pay rate adjustments for the General Schedule (GS). By law (95
Stat. 1183, at 1200), judges' salaries must be authorized separately.
1994. Congress legislated a freeze on the salaries of Members of Congress for
calendar year 1994. With no GS base salary adjustment, there was no "automatic"
adjustment in 1994 for officials in the three branches (107 Stat. 35 and 107 Stat. 1226, at
1253).
1995. Projected adjustment: 2.6%. The FY1995 Treasury Appropriations Act
provided that there would be no adjustment for federal officials (108 Stat. 2328, at 2424).
1996. Projected adjustment: 2.3%. The FY1996 Treasury Appropriations Act
provided that there would be no adjustment for federal officials (109 Stat. 468, at 507).
1997. Projected adjustment: 2.3%. The FY1997 Treasury Appropriations Act
provided that there would be no adjustment for federal officials (110 Stat. 3009-364).
1998. Adjustment: 2.3%, a rate equal to the January 1998 adjustment for GS base
pay. No legislation was enacted to withhold the pay adjustment for federal officials.
1999. Projected adjustment: 3.1%. The FY1999 Treasury Appropriations Act
provided that there would be no adjustment for federal officials (112 Stat. 2681, at 2681-
58).
2000. Adjustment: 3.4%. (P.L. 106-113 authorized judicial pay adjustment.)
2001. Adjustment: 2.7%. Projected 3.0% adjustment limited by GS base pay rate.
No legislation was enacted to withhold the pay adjustment for federal officials. (P.L. 106-
553 authorized the judicial salary adjustment.)
2002. Adjustment: 3.4%. (P.L. 107-77 authorized the judicial salary adjustment.)
2003. Adjustment: 3.1%. Projected 3.3% adjustment limited by GS base pay rate.
Judicial adjustment authorized through passage of H.R. 16, January 2003.
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