Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 52 — Foreign Service
§ 3969. Salaries of consular agents
Statutory text
The Secretary of State shall establish the salary rate for each consular agent. Such salary rate shall be established after taking into account the workload of the consular agency and the prevailing wage rates in the locality where the agency is located, except that, in the case of a consular agent who is a citizen of the United States, the salary rate may not be less than the then applicable minimum wage rate specified in section 206(a)(1) of title 29.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 96–465 title I § 409 · 94 Stat. 2071
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 3969
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 409, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2091.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 409, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2091.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 409. Salaries of Consular Agents.— The Secretary of State 22 USC 3969. shall establish the salary rate for each consular agent. Such salary rate shall be established after taking into account the workload of the consular agency and the prevailing wage rates in the locality where the agency is located, except that, in the case of a consular agent who is a citizen of the United States, the salary rate may not be less than the then applicable minimum wage rate specified in section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 US.C. 206(a)(1)).
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