The detailed pay tables (Schedules 1–10) are available as a PDF linked from the Executive Order page (“Click here to view the tables”) on the White House website. Once implemented, the same rates are also posted on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) “Salaries & Wages” pages for the applicable year (e.g., General Schedule, locality tables, special rates).
Schedule 8 covers monthly basic pay for all members of the "uniformed services" plus cadet and midshipman pay. By law, the uniformed services are: the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Commissioned Corps, and the U.S. Public Health Service. It also includes cadets and midshipmen at the U.S. Military, Naval, Air Force, and Coast Guard Academies, whose pay is tied by statute to a percentage of an O‑1 officer’s basic pay.
“Inclusive of the increase provided under Section 1” means the total possible raise for the covered law enforcement employees is capped at about 3.8% when you add everything together. The regular across‑the‑board increase set in Section 1 (e.g., a 1% base raise for 2026) counts toward that 3.8%, and any extra law‑enforcement‑specific adjustment OPM may grant under 5 U.S.C. 5305 can only make up the difference up to, but not above, a 3.8% total increase in basic pay.
The Executive Order tells the OPM Director to decide, after coordinating with agencies and using special‑rate authority under 5 U.S.C. 5305, which federal civilian law enforcement groups get up to the 3.8% total increase. OPM’s 2026 implementation guidance says its initial consultations will focus on front‑line law enforcement such as: Border Patrol Agents and CBP Officers; ICE criminal investigators and deportation/detention officers; Secret Service special agents and Uniformed Division; Federal Protective Service officers; Bureau of Prisons correctional officers; FBI and DEA special agents; U.S. Marshals Service officers; ATF special agents; and U.S. Park Police officers. The final covered categories are selected and approved by OPM, not by individual agencies.
To implement locality-based comparability payments, the OPM Director must (1) apply the locality percentages and area definitions authorized under 5 U.S.C. 5304 and Schedule 9 of the Executive Order; (2) produce and post the official locality salary tables and related guidance for agencies; and (3) issue an official notice in the Federal Register describing the locality payments and confirming their effective date. This mirrors prior practice, where OPM published a “January 2024 Pay Schedules” notice in the Federal Register specifically to satisfy an earlier Executive Order’s requirement to “publish appropriate notice of the locality payments.”
For most covered civilian employees (e.g., General Schedule, SES, many others), the new rates in Schedules 1–7, 9, and 10 take effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2026. OPM’s 2026 pay memo states that, on the standard biweekly cycle, this date is January 11, 2026, so employees typically see the higher pay in the paycheck issued for that pay period (late January). For uniformed service members and service-academy cadets/midshipmen (Schedule 8), the new basic pay and cadet/midshipman rates are effective January 1, 2026, and will show in their January 2026 military pay for days worked on or after that date.
“Superseded” means the new Executive Order replaces Executive Order 14132 for all pay periods starting on and after the new effective dates; from that point forward, EO 14132 no longer governs pay rates. It does not undo or re‑calculate pay that was already earned and paid under EO 14132 before those dates—past payments remain valid. This is consistent with prior practice documented by OPM, where new pay orders “supersede” earlier ones prospectively while leaving earlier salary payments in place.