Personnel serve ex-officio as advisory members of the Board without
voting privileges.

The Board prepared and recommended to the Governor a pay plan
for all classes of positions in both the Classified and Unclassified
Service, to the end that all positions in such services involving com-
parable duties, experience, responsibilities and authority be paid in
accordance with the standard schedule. In establishing rates of pay,
the State Employees Standard Salary Board gives consideration to
experience, the prevailing rates of pay for services performed, and
for comparable services in public and private employment, living
costs, maintenance, or other benefits received by employees, and the
State's financial condition and policies. The pay plan, as approved by
the Governor, has the force of law. Amendments to the plan may,
from time to time, be recommended by the Board, and when approved
by the Governor have the force of law. Each employee in the Classi-
fied and Unclassified Service is paid at one of the rates set forth
in the pay plan for the grade or class of position in which he is
employed. The pay plan is used by the Governor in the preparation
of the budget. The Board has the authority to formulate rules and
regulations for the administration of the Act. These rules include
provisions for automatic increases, from minimum to maximum, of
the rates established by the schedule; and, after approval by the
Governor, have the force of law. Meetings of the Board are held
each month (Acts 1953, ch. 310).

Appropriations 1953 1954
General Fund $1,600 $1,600
Staff: None.

EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

The Board of Trustees:

Chairman: Hooper S. Miles, State Treasurer

Ex-officio Members: J. Millard Tawes, Comptroller of the
Treasury; James G. Rennie, Director, Department of Budget
and Procurement; Russell S. Davis, State Commissioner of
Personnel.

Appointed by the Board of Public Works: Albert W.
Ward, 1957.

Elected by the Members: George E. Gannon, 1957; Albert
S. Gordon, 1955.
John P. Mannion, Director

Thomas I. Hayes, Executive Secretary
C. W. Barnes, Assistant Executive Secretary

31 Light Street, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Plaza 2-6169

The Employees' Retirement System was established in 1941 to
provide a plan of retirement and to administer pensions to retired
state employees. The System is under the direction of a Board of
Trustees of seven members, four of whom are ex-officio; one is ap-
pointed by the Board of Public Works for a four-year term, and two
are elected for four year terms by the state employees who are
members of the Retirement System. Not included within the Retire-
ment System are the faculty members of the State Teachers Colleges,
Morgan State College and the University of Maryland who are mem-