Meanwhile, the Bush administration has released additional sets of pay tables for fiscal 2003 reflecting a 3.1 percent raise. Earlier, tables were published for most general schedule positions, showing a 3.1 percent across-the-board increase with no increase in locality pay. The latest tables, which must be set by a separate presidential order, cover senior executives, foreign service employees, certain Veterans Affairs department medical personnel and certain other specialty categories, and similarly reflect a 3.1 percent across-the-board increase with no increase in locality pay. By raising the salaries of political appointees paid under the executive schedule, the order also raised the pay caps applying to career employees in several high-level pay systems, whose pay caps are set according to the executive schedule. The most widely applied cap, on total pay, is rising from $138,200 to $142,500. However, action to approve a raise higher than 3.1 percent would make the pay tables obsolete and require issuance of revised tables.