The Board is empowered to authorize the payment of cash awards
and to incur necessary expenses for honorary recognition of officers
and employees in the classified service who, by their suggestion, inven-
tion, superior accomplishment or other personal effort, contribute to
the efficiency, economy, or other improvement of State operation, or
who perform exceptionally meritorious acts or services in the public
interest in connection with or related to their official employment.

Awards to employees and expenses for the honorary recognition of
employees may be paid from funds or appropriations available to the
activity primarily benefiting. The maximum cash award that may be
presented to one individual for one suggestion may not exceed
$5,000.00 (Code 1957, 1960 Supp., Art. 64A, sec. 32A).

STATE EMPLOYEES STANDARD SALARY BOARD

Chairman: Russell S. Davis, Commissioner of Personnel
Ex officio member: Francis B. Burch, Chairman, Baltimore City

Service Commission

Appointed members: Willard G. Rouse, 1962; William E. Voyce,
Jr., 1962; K. Brantley Watson, 1962.
Lillian Hoshall Trost, Secretary

301 W. Preston Street, Baltimore I Telephone: 837-9000

The State Employees Standard Salary Board was established by
Chapter 395, Acts of 1941, and reorganized by Chapter 310, Acts of
1953. By Chapter 87, Acts of 1956, the Board was abolished and a new
Board was created, effective June 1, 1956. The present Board is com-
posed of the State Commissioner of Personnel, ex officio, as Chairman;
the Chairman of the City Service Commission of Baltimore City, ex
officio; a person 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 and Secretary serve
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 serv-
ices 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, 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 prepar-
ing 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 necessary
in order to procure for 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,