---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3967"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3967"
heading: "Salaries for Foreign Service personnel abroad who perform routine duties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3967"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter IV — Compensation"
---

# §3967. Salaries for Foreign Service personnel abroad who perform routine duties

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/22/3902.md?p=10) may establish salary rates at rates lower than those established for the Foreign Service Schedule for the Foreign Service personnel described in [subsection (b)](#b). The rates established under this subsection may be no less than the then applicable minimum wage rate specified in [section 206(a)(1) of title 29](/usc/29/206.md?p=a-1).
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/22/3902.md?p=10) may pay Foreign Service personnel who are recruited [abroad](/usc/22/3902.md?p=1), who are not available or are not qualified for assignment to another Foreign Service post, and who perform duties of a more routine nature than are generally performed by Foreign Service personnel assigned to class 9 in the Foreign Service Schedule, in accordance with the salary rates established under [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 407, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2090.)