Basic Salary and Allowances of Foreign Service Personnel in the Department of Foreign Affairs

January 13, 1978

LETTER OF IMPLEMENTATION NO. 58

BASIC SALARY AND ALLOWANCES OF FOREIGN SERVICE PERSONNEL IN THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

 

WHEREAS, P.D. No. 1285 and Executive Order No. 495 have been promulgated, establishing and defining a foreign service compensation plan for the national government.

WHEREAS, adjustments need to be made in the compensation structure of foreign service personnel, to take into consideration the need to rationalize the existing system, and to take into account the increased cost of living in most posts abroad.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby issue the following instructions:

1. Pursuant to P.D. No. 905, the practice of paying the basic salary of officers and employees of the Department of Foreign Affairs who are assigned abroad, at the rate of P2.00-US$1.00 shall be discontinued effective January 1, 1978. In lieu thereof, payment shall be made in Philippine pesos or equivalent foreign currency computed using the prevailing rates as established by the Central Bank of the Philippines.

2. The full adjustment of the salary of each class and of the Department of Foreign Affairs in accordance with the rates established under P.D. No. 905 is thereby authorized, effective January 1, 1978: Provided, That increases in salary shall be based on the class and grade to which each official and employee is actually appointed as of December 31, 1977.

3. In order to make up for the financial loss resulting from the discontinuation to the old preferential conversion rate previously applicable to salaries and allowances of foreign service personnel stationed abroad, the payment of Overseas Allowance denominated in US dollars is hereby directed follows:

 

Rank	Rates
a) Chief of Mission:
Head of Diplomatic Mission	$19,700
Others including those assigned as Consul General	17,500
b) Career Minister	14,400
c) Foreign Service Officer including those with assimilated rank:
Class I	12,150
Class II	10,800
Class III	8,900
Class IV	7,800
d) Foreign Service Staff Officer
Class I	7,000
Class II	6,350
Class III	5,600
e) Foreign Service Staff Employees
Class I	4,950
Class II	4,300
Class III	3,750

 

4. The existing amounts and conditions of allowances granted foreign service personnel shall remain in force except as may approved by the President upon recommendation of the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and the Commissioner of the Budget.

5. The Secretary of Foreign Affairs, the Commissioner of the Budget and the heads of agencies with staff members assigned shall evaluate the compensation structure and policies pertaining to staff members of agencies other that the Department of Foreign Affairs stationed abroad and shall recommend to the President such transitional and changes as may be necessary to achieve compliance with P.D. No. 1285 and Executive Order No. 495: Provided, that no adjustments in basic salary, allowances and benefits shall be made for such agencies, pending approval of the recommendations directed under this Letter.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 13th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Eight.