duties, experience, responsibilities, and authority shall be paid com-
parable 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 pre-
vailing rates of pay for the same or comparable services performed
in public and private employment; to living costs, maintenance, 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 amendments 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 neces-
sary in order to procure or to retain in the State service essential
career administrative employees performing executive functions or
essential professional or technical employees; and. upon. approval of
the Board of Public Works, after recommendation by the Standard
Salary Board, such amendments 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, Librarians, and
Registrars of the University of Maryland, State teachers colleges, and
Morgan State College are excluded from the jurisdiction of the Salary
Board. The Board formulates rules and regulations for the administra-
tion 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
1957, Art. 64A, sees. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and Acts 1959, chap. 669).

Appropriations 1959 1960

General Funds ................................... $502,090 $2,090
Staff: None.

EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM
Board of Trustees

Chairman: Hooper S. Miles, State Treasurer

Ex officio members: Louis L. Goldstein, Comptroller of the Treas-
ury; 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, 1961.

Elected by the members: Robert L. Serviss, 1961; T. Walter
Gough, 1963.
John P. Mannion, Director

C. W. Barnes, Assistant to the Director

.301 W. Preston Street, Baltimore I Telephone: Vernon 7-9000

The Employees' Retirement System was established in 1941 to
provide a plan of retirement for, and administer pensions to, retired
State employees. The System is directed by a board of seven trustees,
four of whom are ex officio; of the other three, one is appointed by