---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 3152"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "3152"
heading: "Limitation on pay"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/3152"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart B — Employment and Retention"
  - "Chapter 31 — Authority for Employment"
  - "Subchapter III — The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration Senior Executive Service"
---

# §3152. Limitation on pay


[Members](/usc/5/8401.md?p=20) of the FBI–DEA [Senior Executive](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-3) [Service](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26) shall be subject to the limitation under section 5307.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–325, § 1(a), May 30, 1988, 102 Stat. 581; amended Pub. L. 102–378, § 2(9), Oct. 2, 1992, 106 Stat. 1347.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1992—Pub. L. 102–378 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section read as follows: “Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to allow the aggregate amount payable to a member of the FBI–DEA Senior Executive Service under this subchapter during any fiscal year to exceed the annual rate payable for positions at level I of the Executive Schedule in effect at the end of such year. This section shall be applied in a manner consistent with paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 5383(b).”