The scheduled January 2004 pay adjustment, based on the ECI, is 2.2%. Effect of Delayed Passage

GS pay adjustment in January 2004, pending presidential approval of the FY2004 Consolidated Appropriations Act, is limited to 1.5% forbasic pay and an average of 0.5% for locality. The pay adjustment for officials has been limited to 1.5%. Salaries of officials will increase to the2.2% rate,retroactively.
Federal pay adjustment rates going into effect in January 2004, under Executive Order13322 (69 Federal Register231) were less than those in the pending Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004 (H.R. 2673). The GeneralSchedule (GS) and related salarysystems were limited to 2.0%, as opposed to the 4.1% subsequently passed. Salaries of officials in the threebranches were temporarily limited, due to the lowerGS rate, to 1.5%, rather than the scheduled 2.2%, which upon Presidential approval of H.R. 2673, will go into effectretroactively.