PUBLIC LAW 96-465—OCT. 17, 1980
94 STAT. 2089
shall be eligible to compete for performance pay in accordance with this section. Performance pay shall be paid in a lump sum and shall be in addition to the basic salary prescribed under section 402 and any other award. The fact that a member of the Senior Foreign Service competing for performance pay would, as a result of the payment of such performance pay, receive compensation exceeding the compensation of any other member of the Service shall not preclude the award or its payment. (b) Awards of performance pay shall take into account the criteria established by the Office of Personnel Management for performance awards under section 5384 of title 5, United States Code, and rank awards under section 4507 of title 5, United States Code. Awards of performance pay under this section shall be subject to the following limitations: (1) Not more than 50 percent of the members of the Senior Foreign Service ma}^ receive performance pay in any fiscal year. (2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), performance pay for a member of the Senior Foreign Service may not exceed 20 percent of the annual rate of basic salary for that member. (3) Not more than 6 percent of the members of the Senior Foreign Service may receive performance pay in any fiscal year in an amount which exceeds the percentage limitation specified in paragraph (2). Payments under this paragraph to a member of the Senior Foreign Service may not exceed $10,000 in any fiscal year, except that payments of up to $20,000 in any fiscal year may be made under this paragraph to up to 1 percent of the members of the Senior Foreign Service. (4) The total amount of basic salary plus performance pay received in any fiscal year by any member of the Senior Foreign Service may not exceed the salary payable for level I of the Executive Schedule under section 5312 of title 5, United States Code, as in effect at the end of that fiscal year. (c) The Secretary shall determine the amount of performance pay available under subsection 03)(2) each year for distribution among the members of the Senior Foreign Service and shall distribute performance pay to particular individuals on the basis of recommendations by selection boards established under section 602. (d) The President may grant awards of performance pay under subsection (b)(3) on the basis of annual recommendations by the Secretary of State of members of the Senior Foreign Service who are nominated by their agencies as having performed especially meritorious or distinguished service. Recommendations by the Secretary of State under this subsection shall be made on the basis of recommendations by special interagency selection boards established by the Secretary of State for the purpose of reviewing and evaluating the nominations of agencies. SEC. 406. WITHIN-CLASS SALARY INCREASES.—(a) Any member of the Service receiving a salary under the Foreign Service Schedule shall be advanced to the next higher salary step in the member's class at the beginning of the first applicable pay period following the completion by that member of a period of— (1) 52 calendar weeks of service in each of salary steps 1 through 9, and (2) 104 calendar weeks of service in each of salary steps 10 through 13, unless the performance of the member during that period is found in a review by a selection board established under section 602 to fall below the standards of performance for his or her salary class.
Limitations
Meritorious or distinguished service awards.
22 USC 3966
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