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§1931 Additional compensation for employees with specialty assignments and proficiencies

Title 2 › Chapter CHAPTER 29— - CAPITOL POLICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION › Part Part B— - Compensation and Other Personnel Matters › § 1931

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Chief of the Capitol Police can pick certain jobs and decide they get extra pay because of special assignments or skills, based on experience, education, training, or other needed factors. Employees in those jobs get extra money on top of their normal pay, set by the Chief, but the extra pay cannot be more than 25 percent of the employee’s yearly basic pay and cannot be paid in a calendar year if it would make the employee’s total for the year go above the annual rate of basic pay for level II of the Executive Schedule, as of the end of such year. The Chief or a designee decides how the extra pay is paid. The extra pay stops if the person no longer has the special assignment or skill, and losing that extra money is not treated as a punishment. Decisions about which jobs get this designation cannot be appealed or reviewed.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §1931

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(a)The Chief of the Capitol Police may establish and determine, from time to time, positions in salary classes of employees of the Capitol Police to be designated as employees with specialty assignments or proficiencies, based on the experience, education, training, or other appropriate factors required to carry out the duties of such employees.
(b)In addition to the regularly scheduled rate of basic pay, each employee holding a position designated under this section shall receive an amount determined by the Chief, except that—
(1)such amount may not exceed 25 percent of the employee’s annual rate of basic pay; and
(2)such amount may not be paid in a calendar year to the extent that, when added to the total basic pay paid or payable to such employee for service performed in the year, such amount would cause the total to exceed the annual rate of basic pay payable for level II of the Executive Schedule, as of the end of such year.
(c)The additional compensation authorized by this subsection shall be paid to an employee in a manner determined by the Chief or his designee except when the employee ceases to be assigned to the specialty assignment or ceases to maintain the required proficiency. The loss of such additional compensation shall not constitute an adverse action for any purpose.
(d)Any determination under section 11 So in original. Probably should be “subsection”. (a) shall not be appealable or reviewable in any manner.

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Level II of the Executive Schedule, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is set out in section 5313 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Codification Section is from the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2003, which is div. H of Pub. L. 108–7.

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2 U.S.C. § 1931

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Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73