2 U.S.C. § 4531 — House of Representatives pay adjustments; action by Chief Administrative Officer of House

(a) When a pay adjustment under section 5303 of title 5 takes effect for General Schedule pay, the House Chief Administrative Officer must act as considered advisable. (1) On the first day of the month when the President’s adjustment takes effect, the officer must adjust (A) each applicable minimum and maximum pay rate for employees paid by that officer, except a maximum already at least as high as the then-current maximum under section 5332 of title 5, and (B) each monetary pay limit or allowance. The adjustment must be rounded to the nearest $100 and computed using, as nearly as practicable and with appropriate variations, the same percentage as the section 5303 adjustment. (2) The officer must determine pay adjustments for covered employees and classes that are, as nearly as practicable and with needed exceptions or changes, equal or equivalent to corresponding increases determined by the officer for the President’s adjustment, while maintaining appropriate pay relationships. (3) The officer must send the pay-fixing authority concerned a copy of determinations for employees whose pay that authority fixes or adjusts. (b) After considering those determinations, the pay-fixing authority may adjust the rates as it considers appropriate despite sections 1341, 1342, and 1349–1351 and title 31, chapter 15, subchapter II. (c) This section does not impair authority to set pay administratively. (d) It does not authorize adjustment of employees whose rates are set and periodically adjusted to prevailing rates or practices, including House Wage Schedule employees. (e) No rate of pay for any position may be adjusted under this section to an amount in excess of the rate of pay in effect for that position under an order issued by the Speaker of the House of Representatives pursuant to section 4532.