There are five pay rates within the Executive Schedule, denoted with a Roman numeral with I being the highest level and V the lowest.
The law also gives the president the ability to grant Executive Schedule IV and V status to no more than 34 employees not listed.
A few agencies have general counsels, inspectors general, chief financial officers, or chief information officers on Level IV along with their departmental counterparts, although agency officials with these titles may instead be on another pay scale such as the Senior Executive Service.
Section 738 of division E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115-141, March 23, 2018), continued the freeze on the payable pay rates for certain senior political officials at 2013 levels through January 5, 2019.
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§ 5315 lists 346 non-obsolete positions that receive pay at Level IV of the Executive Schedule.
§ 5317, the president can at any time appoint no more than 34 individuals to pay rates Level IV and V, provided that they are viewed as a necessary change to organization, management responsibility, or workload within a specific agency.
All actions taken during this process are to be published in the Federal Register, except when it is deemed that such publication would stand in conflict to national security.
The president may not take action under this section with respect to a position, the pay for which is fixed at a specific rate by this subchapter, or by statute enacted after 14 August 1964.