MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. (UNNUMBERED), March 10, 1942 ]

FIXING THE SALARIES OF THE OFFICERS AND ENLISTED MEN OF THE PHILIPPINE ARMY

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 90 of the National Defense Act and of the Emergency Powers Law,I, MANUEL QUEZON, President of the Philippines, do hereby prescribe the following schedule of salary rates and quarters allowance for officers of the Philippine Army, effective March 15, 1942, and extending for the duration of the war and six months thereafter unless sooner terminated by competent authority:1âшphi1

ANNUAL MONTHLY
PAY QUARTERS
ALLOWANCE
Major General P16,000 P200
Brigadier General 12,000 200
Colonel 8,000 200
Lieutenant Colonel 7,000 200
Major 6,000 160
Captain 4,800 140
First Lieutenant 4,000 100
Second Lieutenant 3,000 80
Third Lieutenant 2,400 60

During the period that the rates of pay herein prescribed are effective there shall not be paid to any officer an increase of pay by reason of length of service, commonly called “longevity pay.”1âшphi1

During the period that the rates of pay herein prescribed are effective there shall not be paid to any officer an increase of pay for duty requiring regular and frequent aerial flights.

ENLISTED MEN, LINE AND MEDICAL SERVICE

Monthly Monthly
Pay Quarters Allowance
Master Sergeant P86 P16
Technical Sergeant and First Sergeant 70 16
Staff Sergeant 60 16
Sergeant 51 12
Corporal 37 12
Private First Class 22 8
Private 18 8

ENLISTED MEN, AIR CORPS

Monthly Monthly
Pay Quarters Allowance
Master Sergeant P86 P16
Technical Sergeant 80 16
Staff Sergeant 75 16
First Sergeant 60 16
Sergeant 51 12
Corporal 37 12
Private First Class 22 8
Private 18 8

Provided that no man shall suffer a reduction in pay by reason of this Executive Order.

Done at the seat of Government in the Field, this tenth day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen Hundred and Forty Two, and the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the seventh.

(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines


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