§293 Compensation Schedules

Summary

The House Oversight Committee must create and keep a pay schedule called the House Employees Schedule (HS) for jobs covered by this chapter, except the jobs covered under the next paragraph. The committee decides how many pay levels there are. Each level has 12 steps. The committee sets the annual pay for each step, but the top step of the highest level cannot be higher than the maximum pay allowed by chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5. Employees are paid according to this schedule. The committee also must make and keep a House Wage Schedule (HWS) for jobs under the Clerk, the Sergeant at Arms, the Chief Administrative Officer, and the Inspector General when pay should follow prevailing rates. The HWS can list annual or hourly rates, or both, and can have whatever levels and steps the committee chooses. Those jobs are paid under that schedule. For applying the committee’s yearly adjustments from 2002 onward (except when a memorandum of understanding in section 2168(a) is in effect), positions under the Chief Administrative Officer include the United States Capitol telephone exchange jobs under the Chief Administrative Officer.