---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 521"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "521"
heading: "Employees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/521"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — General"
  - "Chapter 5 — Office of Management and Budget"
  - "Subchapter II — Administrative"
---

# §521. Employees


The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall appoint and fix the pay of employees of the Office under regulations prescribed by the President.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 886.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 521 | 31:17(a)(related to employees). | June 10, 1921, ch. 18, § 208(a)(related to employees), 42 Stat. 22; Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1939, eff. July 1, 1939, § 1, 53 Stat. 1423; Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1970, eff. July 1, 1970, § 102(a), 84 Stat. 2085. |

The words “attorneys and other” are omitted as being included in “employees”.