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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§3964 Assignments to salary class

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 52— - FOREIGN SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - COMPENSATION › § 3964

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must place all Foreign Service officers and staff (except those paid under sections 3967 or 3968) into the correct pay class in the Foreign Service pay schedule. Being moved into a job under subchapter V does not change a person’s pay class. Pay-class changes for Senior Foreign Service members or others in the Foreign Service Schedule must follow subchapter VI, except as allowed by subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 5. The Secretary must write rules that match subchapter VI of chapter 53 of title 5 and must include rules so people can keep their pay when reduction-in-force procedures are used.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §3964

Foreign Relations and Intercourse — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary shall assign all Foreign Service officers and Foreign Service personnel (other than Foreign Service personnel who are paid in accordance with section 3967 of this title or section 3968 of this title) to appropriate salary classes in the Foreign Service Schedule.
(b)(1)The salary class to which a member of the Service is assigned under this section shall not be affected by the assignment of the member to a position classified under subchapter V.
(2)Except as authorized by subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 5, changes in the salary class of a member of the Senior Foreign Service or a member of the Service assigned to a salary class in the Foreign Service Schedule shall be made only in accordance with subchapter VI. The Secretary shall prescribe regulations (which shall be consistent with the relevant provisions of subchapter VI of chapter 53 of title 5 and with the regulations prescribed to carry out such provisions) providing for retention of pay by members of the Service in cases in which reduction-in-force procedures are applied.

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1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–236 struck out “who are family members of Government employees paid in accordance with a local compensation plan established under” after “section 3967 of this title or”.

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22 U.S.C. § 3964

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73