---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 10208"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "10208"
heading: "Demotions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/10208"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart I — Miscellaneous"
  - "Chapter 102 — United States Secret Service Uniformed Division Personnel"
---

# §10208. Demotions


When a [member](/usc/5/8401.md?p=20) is changed or demoted from any rank to a lower rank, the [Secretary](/usc/5/9901.md?p=2) may fix the [member](/usc/5/8401.md?p=20)’s rate of [basic pay](/usc/5/8401.md?p=4) at the rate of [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4) for any step in the lower rank which does not exceed the lowest step in the lower rank for which the rate of [basic pay](/usc/5/8401.md?p=4) is equal to or greater than the [member](/usc/5/8401.md?p=20)’s existing rate of [basic pay](/usc/5/8401.md?p=4).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 111–282, § 2(a), Oct. 15, 2010, 124 Stat. 3037.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on first day of first pay period which begins after Oct. 15, 2010, see section 5 of Pub. L. 111–282, set out as an Effective Date of 2010 Amendment note under section 5102 of this title.