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§5372b Administrative Appeals Judges

Title 5 › PART III — EMPLOYEES › Subpart D — Pay and Allowances › CHAPTER 53 — PAY RATES AND SYSTEMS › SUBCHAPTER VII — MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › § 5372b

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Agency heads must set the basic pay for each administrative appeals judge position in their agency that is not classified above GS‑15. They must follow rules the Office of Personnel Management issues. Administrative appeals judge position: a job that mainly reviews decisions of administrative law judges appointed under section 3105. Agency: an Executive agency under section 105, not the Government Accountability Office. Pay must be at least the AL‑3 minimum and no more than the AL‑3 maximum in section 5372.

Full Legal Text

Title 5, §5372b

Government Organization and Employees, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)For the purpose of this section—
(1)the term “administrative appeals judge position” means a position the duties of which primarily involve reviewing decisions of administrative law judges appointed under section 3105; and
(2)the term “agency” means an Executive agency, as defined by section 105, but does not include the Government Accountability Office.
(b)Subject to such regulations as the Office of Personnel Management may prescribe, the head of the agency concerned shall fix the rate of basic pay for each administrative appeals judge position within such agency which is not classified above GS–15 pursuant to section 5108.
(c)A rate of basic pay fixed under this section shall be—
(1)not less than the minimum rate of basic pay for level AL–3 under section 5372; and
(2)not greater than the maximum rate of basic pay for level AL–3 under section 5372.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

GS–15, referred to in subsec. (b), is contained in the General Schedule which is set out under section 5332 of this title.

Amendments

2004—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(3) [title VI, § 645(b)], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–170, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a)(1) [enacting this section] shall apply with respect to pay for service performed on or after the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after— “(1) the 120th day after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 21, 2000]; or “(2) if earlier, the

Effective Date

of

Regulations

prescribed by the Office of Personnel Management to carry out such amendment.”

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

5 U.S.C. § 5372b

Title 5, Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102