22 U.S.C. § 3963
Foreign Service Schedule
The President shall establish a Foreign Service Schedule which shall consist of 9 salary classes and which shall apply to members of the Service who are citizens of the United States and for whom salary rates are not otherwise provided for by this subchapter. The maximum salary rate for the highest class established under this section, which shall be designated class 1, may not exceed the maximum rate of basic pay prescribed for GS–15 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5. Salary rates established under this section shall be adjusted in accordance with section 5303 of title 5.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1987–2024 · leading case: Alison Palmer v. George P. Shultz, as Sec'y of State. Marguerite Cooper v. George P. Shultz, as Sec'y of State, 815 F.2d 84 (D.C. Cir. 1987).
Alison Palmer v. George P. Shultz, as Sec'y of State. Marguerite Cooper v. George P. Shultz, as Sec'y of State, 815 F.2d 84 (D.C. Cir. 1987). “22 U.S.C. § 3963 . The Secretary of State assigns all Foreign Service Officers to a particular salary class.”
Walter J. Thomas v. James Baker, in His Off. Capacity as Sec'y of State, 925 F.2d 1523 (D.C. Cir. 1991). “The State Department is certainly within bounds to read the same term in its own circular in the same way, particularly since selection boards are charged with the duty of ranking “the members of a salary class” ( 22 U.S.C. § 4002 (a)).”
Picur v. Kerry, 128 F. Supp. 3d 302 (D.D.C. 2015). “, the set figure that corresponds to a Foreign Service employee’s Class and Step within the Foreign Service’s salary system, see 22 U.S.C. §§ 3963 , 3966 — and also an amount known as a “special differential,” which is an additional payment that is provided to certain Foreign…”
Palmer v. Baker, 905 F.2d 1544 (D.C. Cir. 1990). “See 22 U.S.C. § 3963 . Officers begin to compete for promotions from class 6 to class 5; promotions from class 8 to class 7 and from class 7 to class 6 are noncompetitive.”
United States Dep't of State v. Picur (D.D.C. 2024). “See 22 U.S.C. §§ 3963 , 3966. A “special differential” is an additional payment, calculated as a percentage of that employee’s base salary, for Foreign Service officers “who are required because of the nature of their assignments to perform additional work on a regular basis in…”
Hugh W. Olds, Jr. v. United States Info. Agency United States of Am. v. Hugh W. Olds, Jr., 896 F.2d 1371 (D.C. Cir. 1990). “22 U.S.C. § 3963 (1988). Within each grade, as in the GS schedule, there are a number of steps, each of which has higher pay than the preceding step.”
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