ADOPTING A COMPENSATION SCHEME FOR THE CAREER EXECUTIVE SERVICE AND RELATED MATTERS

WHEREAS, a Career Executive Service has been created under
the Integrated Reorganization Plan approved by Presidential Decree No. 1
dated 24 September 1972, to form a continuing pool of well-selected and
development oriented career administrators who shall provide competent
and faithful service;

WHEREAS, the Career Executive Service Board has been
directed by Letter of Instructions No. 146 dated 14, November
1973 to formulate rules, standards and procedures covering the Career
Executive Service, particularly the compensation of the members of the
Service;

WHEREAS, Career Executive Service Officers have already been
appointed into the Career Executive Service upon recommendation of the
Career Executive Service Board;

WHEREAS, a Compensation Scheme has been recommended by the
Career Executive Service Board to be adopted for members of the Career
Executive Service;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution,
do hereby decree and order the following:

SECTION 1. The following Compensation Scheme, as recommended
by the Career Executive Service Board pursuant to the provisions of the
Integrated Reorganization Plan approved by Presidential Decree No. 1
dated 24 September 1972, for members of the Career Executive Service is
hereby adopted:

	Rank			Salary Levels			Positions Covered
	RANK I						Undersecretary
		Grade 2		P41,232
		Grade 1		39,240
	RANK II
		Grade 5		39,240			Assistant Secretary
		Grade 4		37,344			Bureau Director
		Grade 3		35,532			Regional Director
		Grade 2		33,816			(Department-wide regionalization)
		Grade 1		32,184
	RANK III
		Grade 5		32,184			Assistant Bureau Director
		Grade 4		30,624			Assistant Regional Director
		Grade 3		29,148
		Grade 2		27,732			(Department-wide regionalization)
		Grade 1		26,388
	RANK IV
		Grade 4		26,388			Regional Director
		Grade 3		25,116			(Bureau-wide regionalization)
		Grade 2		23,892
		Grade 1		22,728			Chief, Department Service
	RANK V
		Grade 4		22,728			Assistant Regional Director
		Grade 3		21,624			(Bureau-wide regionalization)
		Grade 2		20,580
		Grade 1		19,584

SEC. 2. Original appointments as well as promotional
appointments of Career Executive Service Officers shall be issued by the
President upon recommendation of the Career Executive Board to the
appropriate rank, grade, and salary. Subsequent to such original or
promotional appointments, salary increases to higher grades within rank
of Career Executive Service Board in accordance with rules and
regulations which the Board may promulgate pursuant to Paragraph 5,
Article IV, Part III of the Integrated Reorganization Plan.

SEC. 3. As a general rule, the salaries of Career Executive
Service Officers shall start at Grade 2 of the corresponding rank in
this Compensation Scheme and those of incumbents of and new appointees
to Career Executive Service positions who are not Career Executive
Service Officers shall start at Grade 1 of the corresponding rank:
Provided, That in the case of said incumbents who are not members of the
Career Executive Service, subsequent salary increases and/or rank
promotions may be granted only after satisfactory completion of the
Career Executive Service Development Program and compliance with such
requirements as the Board shall set: Provided, further, That nothing
herein stated shall reduce any salary received by any incumbent of any
Executive Service position as a consequence of the implementation of the
herein Compensation Scheme, except that the salary of his successor
shall be in conformity with this Scheme.

SEC. 4. This Compensation Scheme shall govern salaries
of all existing positions within the Career Executive Service, and of
all positions as may hereafter be created within the Career Executive
Service, and likewise of all positions as may be determined to be of
equivalent category by the Career Executive Service Board.

SEC. 5. The President may, in cases of appointments to
positions in the Career Executive Service of individuals possessing
specialized skills and exceptional talent, authorize a salary higher
than the salary provided for in the Scheme.

SEC. 6. This Compensation Scheme shall be implemented
upon approval.

SEC. 7. This Decree shall take effect upon approval.

Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of December, in
the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-five.