Adopting a Compensation Scheme for Career Executive Service

December 16, 1975

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 847

ADOPTING A COMPENSATION SCHEME FOR THE CAREER EXECUTIVE SERVICE AND RELATED MATTERS

WHEREAS, a Career Executive Service has been created under the Integrated Reorganization Plan approved by Presidential Decree No. 1 dated 24 September 1972, to form a continuing pool of well-selected and development-oriented career administrators who shall provide competent and faithful service;

WHEREAS, the Career Executive Service Board has been directed by Letter of Instructions No. 146 dated 14 November 1973 to formulate rules, standards and procedures covering the Career Executive Service, particularly the compensation of the members of the Service;

WHEREAS, the Career Executive Service Officers have already been appointed into the Career Executive Service upon recommendation of the Career Executive Service Board; cd

WHEREAS, a Compensation Scheme has been recommended by the Career Executive Service Board to be adopted for members of the Career Executive Service;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby decree and order the following:

SECTION 1. The following Compensation Scheme, as recommended by the Career Executive Service Board pursuant to the provisions of the Integrated Reorganization Plan approved by Presidential Decree No. 1 dated 24 September 1972, for members of the Career Executive Service is hereby adopted: aisa dc

RANK	SALARY LEVELS	POSITIONS COVERED
RANK I		Undersecretary
Grade 2	P41,232
Grade 1	39,240
RANK II
Grade 5	39,240	Assistant Secretary
Grade 4	37,344	Bureau Director
Grade 3	35,532	Regional Director
Grade 2	33,816	(Department-wide
Grade 1	32,184	regionalization)
RANK III
Grade 5	32,184	Assistant Bureau Director
Grade 4	30,624	Assistant Regional Director
Grade 3	29,148
Grade 2	27,732	Department-wide
Grade 1	26,388	regionalization
RANK IV
Grade 4	26,388	Regional Director
Grade 3	25,116	(Bureau-wide regionalization)
Grade 2	23,892
Grade 1	22,728	Chief, Department Service
RANK V
Grade 4	22,728	Assistant Regional Director
Grade 3	21,624
Grade 2	20,580	(Bureau-wide
Grade 1	19,584	regionalization)

SECTION 2. Original appointments as well as promotional appointments of Career Executive Service Officers shall be issued by the President upon recommendation of the Career Executive Board to the appropriate rank, grade, and salary. Subsequent to such original or promotional appointments, salary increases to higher grades within rank of Career Executive Service Officers shall be effected by the Career Executive Service Board in accordance with rules and regulations which the Board may promulgate pursuant to Paragraph 5, Article IV, Part III of the Integrated Reorganization Plan.

SECTION 3. As a general rule, the salaries of Career Executive Service Officers shall start at Grade 2 of the corresponding rank in this Compensation Scheme and those of incumbents of and new appointees to Career Executive Service positions who are not Career Executive Service Officers shall start at Grade 1 of the corresponding rank: Provided, That in the case of said incumbents who are not members of the Career Executive Service, subsequent salary increases and/or rank promotions may be granted only after satisfactory completion of the Career Executive Service Development Program and compliance with such requirements as the Board shall set: Provided, further, That nothing herein stated shall reduce any salary received by any incumbent of any Career Executive Service position as a consequence of the implementation of the herein Compensation Scheme, except that the salary of his successor shall be in conformity with this Scheme.

SECTION 4. This Compensation Scheme shall govern salaries of all existing positions within the Career Executive Service, and of all positions as may hereafter be created within the Career Executive Service, and likewise of all positions as may be determined to be of equivalent category by the Career Executive Service Board.

SECTION 5. The President may, in cases of appointments to positions in the Career Executive Service of individuals possessing specialized skills and exceptional talent, authorize a salary higher than the salary provided for in the Scheme.

SECTION 6. This Compensation Scheme shall be implemented upon approval.

SECTION 7. This Decree shall take effect upon approval. cdt

DONE in the City of Manila, this 16th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Five.