WHEREAS, the results of the 1979 Salary Survey conducted in private industry by the National Government indicates and justifies a further increase in the salaries of government personnel;

WHEREAS, there is a need to provide additional guidelines to ensure justice and equity in setting compensation for members of the Career Executive Service;

WHEREAS, it has become necessary to further upgrade the existing salary schedule of the Career Executive Service under Presidential Decree No. 1581 in order to harmonize the existing salary schedule for members of the Career Executive Service with the National Compensation Plan and to correspondingly increase the salaries of CES positions;

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

Section 1. The compensation schedule for the Career Executive Service, as provided in Section 1 of Presidential Decree No. 1581, is hereby upgraded as follows:

a. Compensation Schedule
(Annual Rates)

Rank	Grade 1	Grade 2	Grade 3	Grade 4
I	P67,896	P71,364	P -	P -
II	58,476	61,464	64,596	67,896
III	50,376	52,944	55,644	58,476
IV	43,392	45,600	47,928	50,376
V	37,380	39,288	41,292	43,392

b. Positions Covered

The various ranks in the Career Executive Service cover the following positions, and such other positions as may be determined to be of equivalent category by the Career Executive Service Board:

RANK I	-	Deputy Minister
RANK II	-	Assistant Secretary Bureau Director Regional Director (Department-Wide Regionalization)
RANK III	-	Assistant Bureau Director Assistant Regional Director (Department-wide Regionalization)
RANK IV	-	Regional Director (Bureau-wide Regionalization) Ministry Service Chief
RANK V	-	Assistant Regional Director (Bureau-wide Regionalization)

Section 2. The amount of P13M or so much as may be necessary to implement the upgraded rates of compensation shall be drawn from the Salary Adjustment Fund in the CY 1981 General Appropriations Act.

Section 3. The rules and regulations needed to comply with this Executive Order shall be formulated and issued by the Ministry of the Budget and the Career Executive Service Board.

Section 4. This Order shall take effect on January 1, 1981.

Done in the City of Manila, this 19th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-one.

By the President:

(SGD.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Executive Assistant