MARYLAND MANUAL 51

14,000 employees. His Department is the service agency through
which all agencies of the State procure their classified employees.

Appropriations 1955 1956
General Fund ............................ $271,781 $277,508

Staff: 61.

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ment of Budget and Procurement and the State Commissioner of
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 thp 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 (Code 1955 supp., Art. 64A, sees. 24,
25, 27).

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

Appropriations	1955	1956
General Fund ....................................	$1,600	$1,600
Staff: None.