HRPAY 17-02, Pay Rate Determinant Code (PRD), T, Below the Minimum Rate

Published: January 6, 2017
Effective: Pay Period 01, 2017

Summary

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, contains a provision that continues the freeze on the payable pay rates for the Vice President and certain senior political appointees at 2013 levels into calendar year 2017. (See section 738 of title VII of Division E of the Act.) The Pay Rate Determinant (PRD) Code T, Below the Minimum Rate, will continue to be used to accommodate this legislation through calendar year 2017, although it was originally scheduled to expire January 7, 2017.

Implementations

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) guidance on the 2014 pay freeze for certain senior political officials remains applicable for the pay freeze in 2017. (See OPM guidance Compensation Policy Memoranda (CPM) at CPM 2014-03.) However, the dates in the guidance must be updated to apply the new pay freeze period commencing on the first day of the first pay period that begins in January 2017 and ending on the last day of the last pay period that begins in calendar year 2017 (i.e., January 8, 2017, through January 6, 2018, for those on the standard biweekly payroll cycle). Sections of CPM 2014-03 that deal with the enactment of the pay freeze provision after the beginning of the calendar year are not applicable.

The official 2017 pay rate for EX-IV of $161,900 must be used for coverage under the pay freeze for political appointees in Senior Executive Schedule (SES), Senior Level (SL), and certain other covered positions described in CPM 2016-20. An SES or SL political appointee paid less than $161,900 may receive a pay increase up to this rate, but may not receive an increase above this rate or any subsequent increase except as provided in the pay freeze statutory authority referenced above.

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Resources

Please refer to Bulletin HRPAY 14-03, New Pay Rate Determinant Code T, Below the Minimum Rate, dated February 21, 2014, for more information.

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