[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 312, June 19, 1948 ]

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR REVISED SALARY ALLOCATIONS AND AUTOMATIC SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL OFFICIALS, TEACHERS, AND OTHER SCHOOL PERSONNEL OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

Section 1. This Act may be cited as the "Public School Salary Act of 1948."

Section 2. The provisions of sections three and four of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred and two and the interpretations of said Act by the Salary Board notwithstanding the minimum and maximum rates of annual compensation of national, provincial, and city positions in the educational service of the Government of the Philippines as hereby classified shall be as follows:

Position Grade Salary range
1 Chief of Division, General Office, Division Superintendent of Schools and Superintendent of National Schools 6 - 1 P4,200.00-P6,000.00
2 Assistant Chief of Division, General Office, and Assistant Division Superintendent of Schools 9 - 2 3,480.00 -5,400.00
3 General Office supervisor 11 - 4 3,120.00 -4,800.00
4 Principal, normal school and technical school 12 - 6 2,940.00 -4,200.00
5 Registrar, normal school and other schools above secondary level 13 - 6 2,760.00 -4,200.00
6 Division supervisor; supervisor of secondary schools; supervisor, training department, normal school; secondary principal and city elementary supervisor, and adult education supervisor 13 - 6 2,760.00 -4,200.00
7 Section chief, General Office 15 - 7 2,400.00 -3,960.00
8 Instructor and critic teacher, normal school and instructor of schools above secondary level, test constructor, curriculum writer, and researcher 15 -11 2,400.00 -3,120.00
9 District supervisor, supervising principal and Manila City elementary principal, teacher physician B - 11 2,160.00 -3,120.00
10 Secondary classroom teacher E - 11 1,800.00 -3,120.00
11 Elementary principal, chief clerks of division office and national schools, property clerks of division office and national schools D - 15 1,920.00 -2,400.00
12 Teacher nurse H - A 1,440.00 -2,280.00
13 Elementary Classroom Teacher P - E 1,200.00 -1,800.00

Section 3. (A) A teacher with educational qualifications higher than the standards required for the position to which he is appointed be given a higher rate of entrance salary than a teacher who merely meets the standards, provided his civil service eligibility warrants a higher entrance salary for him.

(B) An elementary-school principal or district supervisor who originally prepared himself for elementary work and who has obtained a B.S.E.Ꮮαwρhi৷ degree while in the service be given the same compensation as a secondary principal or a secondary supervisor, provided he possesses the civil service eligibility.

(C) A classroom teacher who is a Normal graduate and who has obtained a B.S.E. degree while in the service be given the same compensation as a secondary teacher with the same college degree, provided he possesses the necessary civil service eligibility.

Section 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 19, 1948.


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