---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 531.201"
title: "5"
number: "531.201"
heading: "Purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/531.201"
---

# §531.201. Purpose.


This subpart contains regulations of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) implementing 5 U.S.C [5332](/usc/5/5332.md), [5333](/usc/5/5333.md), and [5334](/usc/5/5334.md), which deal with setting and adjusting rates of basic pay for General Schedule (GS) employees. These regulations are supplemented by regulations on GS within-grade increases in [subpart D](/cfr/5/subpartD.md) of this part; GS quality step increases in [subpart E](/cfr/5/subpartE.md) of this part; locality rates in [subpart F](/cfr/5/subpartF.md) of this part; special rates in [5 CFR part 530](/cfr/5/part530.md), [subpart C](/cfr/5/subpartC.md); and grade and pay retention in [5 CFR part 536](/cfr/5/part536.md).


## Notes

### Source

Source: 70 FR 31291, May 31, 2005, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5115, 5307, and 5338; sec. 4 of Public Law 103-89, 107 Stat. 981; and E.O. 12748, 56 FR 4521, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 316; Subpart B also issued under 5 U.S.C. 5303(g), 5305, 5333, 5334(a) and (b), and 7701(b)(2); Subpart D also issued under 5 U.S.C. 5335 and 7701(b)(2); Subpart E also issued under 5 U.S.C. 5336; Subpart F also issued under 5 U.S.C. 5304, 5305, and 5941(a); E.O. 12883, 58 FR 63281, 3 CFR, 1993 Comp., p. 682; and E.O. 13106, 63 FR 68151, 3 CFR, 1998 Comp., p. 224.