---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 5761"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "5761"
heading: "Foreign language proficiency pay awards for the Federal Bureau of Investigation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/5761"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart D — Pay and Allowances"
  - "Chapter 57 — Travel, Transportation, and Subsistence"
  - "Subchapter IV — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §5761. Foreign language proficiency pay awards for the Federal Bureau of Investigation


The [Director](/usc/5/8401.md?p=8) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may, under regulations prescribed by the [Director](/usc/5/8401.md?p=8), [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4) a cash award of up to 10 percent of [basic pay](/usc/5/8401.md?p=4) to any Bureau [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2) who maintains proficiency in a language or languages critical to the mission or who uses one or more foreign languages in the performance of official duties.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 111–117, div. B, title II, § 219(a), Dec. 16, 2009, 123 Stat. 3141.)