service agency through which all agencies of the State procure
their classified employees.

Appropriations 1957 1958
General Funds . $316,239 $330,315
Staff: 63.

STATE EMPLOYEES STANDARD SALARY BOARD

Chairman: Russell S. Davis, Commissioner of Personnel
Ex officio Member: George F. Dollinger, Chairman, City Service

Commission

Appointive Members: Charles D. Harris, 1962; Willard G.
Rouse, 1962; B. Howard Stansbury, 1962.
Lillian Hoshall Trost, Secretary

31 Light Street, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Saratoga 7-7000

The State Employees Standard Salary Board was established in
1941 and re-organized in 1953. By Act of the General Assembly of
1956, the Board was abolished and a new Board was created, effec-
tive June 1, 1956. The present Board is composed of the State Com-
missioner of Personnel, ex officio, as Chairman; the Chairman of the
City Service Commission of Baltimore City, ex officio; and a per-
son appointed by the Governor from a list of three names submitted
by the Maryland Classified Employees Association, and two persons
appointed by the Governor to represent the general public, all three
for a period of six years or until such members become officers or
employees of the State. The Board serves without compensation.

The Board prepares and recommends 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 shall be
paid comparable salaries in accordance with the relative value of
the services to be performed. In establishing rates of pay, the State
Employees Standard Salary Board gives consideration to experience;
to the prevailing rates of pay for the same or comparable services
performed in public and private employment; to living costs, main-
tenance, or other benefits received by employees; and to the State's
financial condition and policies. If the Governor approves the pay
plan, he uses it in preparing the State budget, and the plan has the
force of law at the time the next State budget takes effect if funds
for such pay plan are provided therein. The Board may recommend
amendments to the plan from time to time and when approved by
the Governor and so included in the next State budget, such amend-
ments have the force of law. Solely in cases of acute emergency,
amendments may be made from time to time in the pay plan to
take effect at any time before the effective date of the next State
budget if the amendment is necessary in order to procure or to re-
tain in the State service essential career administrative employees
performing executive functions or essential professional or techni-
cal employees; and upon approval of the Board of Public Works,
after recommendation by the Standard Salary Board, such amend-
ments shall have the force of law in the same manner as if they
had been originally incorporated in the schedule. Each employee
in the Classified 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. Faculty positions of the University of Mary-
land, State teachers colleges, and Morgan State College are ex-
cluded from the jurisdiction of the Salary Board. The Board form-