The annual rates of compensation for positions in this grade shall be $720, $780, $840, $900, and $960.

Grade 2 in this service, which may be referred to as the Office-laborer grade, shall include all classes of positions the duties of which are to handle desks, mail sacks, and other heavy objects, and to perform similar work ordinarily required of unskilled laborers; to operate elevators; to clean office rooms; or to perform other work of similar character.

The annual rates of compensation for positions in this grade shall be $1,200, $1,260, $1,320, $1,380, $1,440, and $1,500: Provided, That charwomen working part time be paid at the rate of 78 cents an hour, and head charwomen at the rate of 83 cents an hour.

Grade 3 in this service, which may be referred to as the minor crafts, protective, and custodial grade, shall include all classes of positions the duties of which are to perform, under immediate supervision, custodial, or manual office work with some degree of responsibility, such as operating paper-cutting, canceling, envelope-opening, or envelope-sealing machines; firing and keeping up steam in boilers used for heating purposes in office buildings, cleaning boilers, and oiling machinery and related apparatus; operating passenger or freight automobiles; packing goods for shipment; supervising a large group of charwomen; running errands and doing light manual or mechanical tasks with some responsibility; carrying important documents from one office to another; or attending the door and private office of a department head or other public officer.

The annual rates of compensation for positions in this grade shall be $1,320, $1,380, $1,440, $1,500, $1,560, and $1,620.

Grade 4 in this service, which may be referred to as the under crafts, protective, and custodial grade, shall include all classes of positions the duties of which are to perform, under general supervision, custodial work of a responsible character, such as guarding office or storage building; supervising a small force of unskilled laborers; firing and keeping up steam in heating apparatus and operating the boilers and other equipment used for heating purposes; or performing general, semimechanical, new, or repair work requiring some skill with hand tools.

The annual rates of compensation for positions in this grade shall be $1,500, $1,560, $1,620, $1.680, $1,740, $1,800, and $1,860.

Grade 5 in this service, which may be referred to as the junior crafts, protective, and custodial grade, shall include all classes of positions the duties of which are to directly supervise a small detachment of watchmen or building guards; to supervise the operation and maintenance of a small heating plant and its auxiliary equipment; or to perform other work of similar character.

The annual rates of compensation for positions in this grade shall be $1,680, $1,740, $1,800, $1,860, $1,920, $1,980, and $2,040.

Grade 6 in this service, which may be referred to as the assistant crafts, protective, and custodial grade, shall include all classes of positions the duties of which are to have general supervision over a small force of watchmen or building guards, or to have direction of a considerable detachment of such employees; to supervise a large force of unskilled laborers; to repair office appliances; or to perform other work of similar character.

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The annual rates of compensation for positions in this grade shall be $1,860, $1,920, $1,980, $2,040, $2,100, $2,160, and $2,220.

Grade 7 in this service, which may be referred to as the main crafts, protective, and custodial grade, shall include all classes of positions the duties of which are to supervise the work of skilled mechanics; to supervise the operation and maintenance of a large heating, lighting, and power plant and all auxiliary mechanical and electrical devices and equipment; to assist in the supervision of large forces of watchmen and building guards, or to have general supervision over smaller forces; or to perform other work of similar character.

The annual rates of compensation for positions in this grade shall be $2,040, $2,100, $2,160, $2,220, $2,300, $2,400, and $2,500.

Grade 8 in this service, which may be referred to as the senior crafts, protective, and custodial grade, shall include all classes of positions the duties of which are to direct supervisory and office assistants, mechanics, watchmen, elevator conductors, laborers, janitors, messengers, and other employees engaged in the custody, maintenance, and protection of a small building, or to assist in the direction of such employees when engaged in similar duties in a large building; to have general supervision over large forces of watchmen and building guards; or to perform other work of equal difficulty and responsibility. The annual rates of compensation for positions in this grade shall be $2,200, $2,300, $2,400, $2,500, $2,600, $2,700, and $2,800.

Grade 9 in this service, which may be referred to as the principal custodial grade, shall include all classes of positions the duties of which are to direct supervisory and office assistants, mechanics, watchmen, elevator conductors, laborers, janitors, messengers, and other employees engaged in the custody, maintenance, and protection of a large building, or to assist in the direction of such employees when engaged in similar duties in a group of buildings; or to perform other custodial work of equal difficulty and responsibility.

The annual rates of compensation for positions in this grade shall be $2,870, $2,980, $3,090, $3,200, $3,310, $3,420, and $3,530.

Grade 10 in this service, which may be referred to as the chief custodial grade, shall include all classes of positions the duties of which are to direct supervisory and office assistants, mechanics, watchmen, elevator condutors, laborers, janitors, messengers, and other employees engaged in the custody, maintenance, and protection of a group of buildings, or to perform other custodial work of equal difficulty and responsibility.

The annual rates of compensation for positions in this grade shall be $3,200, $3,310, $3,420, $3,530, $3,640, $3,750, and $3,860.

CLERICAL-MECHANICAL SERVICE

The clerical-mechanical service shall include all classes of positions which are not in a recognized trade or craft and which are located in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the mail equipment shop, the duties of which are to perform or to direct manual or machine operations requiring special skill or experience, or to perform or direct the counting, examining, sorting, or other verification of the product of manual or machine operations.

Grade 1 shall include all classes of positions in this service the duties of which are to perform the simpler operations or processes requiring special skill and experience.

The rates of compensation for classes of positions in this grade shall be 90 to 97 cents an hour.

Grade 2 shall include all classes of positions in this service the duties of which are to operate simple machines or to perform operations or processes requiring a higher degree of skill than those in grade 1.

The rates of compensation for classes of positions in this grade shall be $1.04 to $1.12 an hour.

Grade 3 shall include all classes of positions in this service the duties of which are to operate machines or to perform operations or processes requiring the highest degree of skill, or supervise a small number of subordinates.

The rates of compensation for classes of positions in this grade shall be $1.20 to $1.27 an hour.

Grade 4 shall include all classes of positions in this service the duties of which are to perform supervisory work over a large unit of subordinates.

The rates of compensation for classes of positions in this grade shall be $1.35 to $1.49 an hour.

The heads of the several executive departments and independent establishments of the Government whose duty it is to carry into effect the provisions of this section are hereby directed to so administer the same that the positions and employees affected herein shall retain in the classification schedules herein provided the same relative position or positions within their respective grades as they held on July 1, 1928: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the promotion or allocation for an employee to a higher grade: Provided further, That nothing contained in this section shall operate to decrease the pay of any present employee, nor deprive any employee of any advancement authorized by law and for which funds are available.

Whenever in any case the basic qualifications of any already existing grade or subdivision of a service are by this section made the basic qualifications of a higher grade or subdivision, the positions of all employees in said existing grade or subdivision are by this section advanced to said higher grade or subdivision of a service. (June 30, 1945, ch. 212, title IV, § 405 (b), 59 Stat. 300; May 24, 1946, ch. 270, §§ 2 (b), 12 (a, b), 60 Stat. 216, 219.

AMENDMENTS

1945-Act June 30, 1945, cited to text, amended section by increasing the hourly wage of charwomen working part time from "65 cents" to "78 cents" and head charwomen from "70 cents" to "83 cents" in the proviso to the fifth paragraph under heading "Crafts, Protective and Custodial Service", and by increasing the hourly rate of Grade 1 from "55 to 60 cents" to "78 to 85 cents", Grade 2 from "65 to 70 cents" to "91 to 98 cents", Grade 3 from "75 to 80 cents" to "$1.05 to $1.11", and Grade 4 from "85 to 95 cents" to "$1.18 to $1.31" under heading "Clerical-Mechanical Service".

Act May 24, 1946, cited to text, amended section by increasing the hourly wage of charwomen working part time from "78 cents" to "90 cents" and head charwomen from "83 cents" to "95 cents" in the proviso to the fifth paragraph under the heading "Crafts, Protective, and Custodial Service", by increasing the hourly rate of Grade 1 from "78 to 85 cents" to "90 to 97 cents", Grade 2 from "91 to 98 cents" to "$1.04 to $1.12", Grade 3 from "$1.05 to $1.11" to "$1.20 to $1.27", and Grade 4 from "$1.18 to $1.31" to "$1.35 to $1.49" under heading "Clerical

Mechanical Service", by increasing the rates of compensation for Grade 9 from "$2300, $2400, $2500, $2600, $2700, $2,800 and $2,900" to "$2,870, $2,980, $3,090, $3,200, $3,310, $3,420, and $3,530”, and for Grade 10 from "$2,600, $2,700, $2,800, $2,900, $3,000 $3,100, $3,200” to “$3,200, $3,310, $3,420, $3,530, $3,640, $3,750, and $3,860" under heading "Crafts Protective, and Custodial Service".

§ 681. Extension of Classification Act by President.-(a) Extension of chapter to position in agencies of Government.-Subject to the limitations contained in this section, whenever the President, after such classification and compensation surveys or investigations as he may direct the Commission to undertake, and upon consideration of the Commission's resulting reports and recommendations, shall find and declare that an extension of the provisions of sections 661-673 and 674 of this title, to any offices or positions in the agencies of the Govern-· ment is necessary to the more efficient operation of the Government, he may by Executive order extend the provisions of sections 661-673 and 674 of this title, to any such offices or positions not at the time subject to such provisions: Provided, That in the case of any federally owned and controlled corporation organized under the laws of any State, Territory, or possession of the United States (including the Philippine Islands), or the District of Columbia, the President is authorized to direct that such action be taken as will permit the compensation of such offices or positions to be fixed in accordance with sections 661-673 and 674 of this title, consistently with the laws of any such State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, or with the charter or articles of incorporation of any such corporation.

(b) Prescription of additional classification services and grades where necessary. Whenever the President, upon report and recommendation by the Commission, shall find and declare that one or more officers or positions to which sections 661-673 and 674 of this title, as extended, is applicable, may not fairly and reasonably be allocated to the professional and scientific service, the subprofessional service, the clerical, administrative, and fiscal service, the custodial service, or the clerical-mechanical service, as described in sections 661-673 and 674 of this title, he may by Executive order prescribe and define such additional classification services and grades thereof as he may deem necessary and shall describe, and fix the ranges of compensation for, the grades of such services within the limits of sections 661-673 and 674 of this title, so that they shall be comparable, as nearly as may be, with the grades in said sections, for offices or positions that are comparable as to duties, responsibilities, qualifications required, and other conditions of employment.

(c) Establishment of necessary schedules of differentials in rates prescribed by compensation schedules. Whenever the President, upon report and recommendation by the Commission, shall find and declare that the rates of the compensation schedules of sections 661-673 and 674 of this title are inadequate for any offices or positions under such sections, as extended, he may by Executive order establish necessary schedules of differentials in the rates prescribed in such compensation schedules, but the differentials in the compensation of any such office or position shall not exceed 25 per centum of the minimum rate of the grade to which such office or position is allocated under such compensation schedules: Provided, That the provisions of this subsection shall be applicable only to such offices or positions having the following characteristics:

Offices or positions which are located at stations that are isolated, remote, or inaccessible when compared with stations at which offices or positions of the same character are usually located, or which involve physical hardships or hazards that are excessive when compared with those usually involved in offices or positions of the same character, or which are located outside the States of the United States and the District of Columbia: Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall preclude the Commission from taking the factor of isolation, hardship, hazard, or foreign service into consideration in allocating a given class of offices or positions to a service and grade under sections 661-673 and 674 of this title, if such factor is uniformly involved in each office or position in the class, in which event no differential is authorized under this section.

(d) Offices and positions excepted from section.-Except as Congress may otherwise provide by law, the power granted to the President by this section shall not apply to the following:

(i) Offices or positions in the Postal Service the compensation of which is fixed under an Act of Congress approved February 28, 1925 (43 Stat. 1033), as amended;

(ii) Offices or positions of teachers, librarians, school-attendance officers, and employees of the community-center department under the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, the compensation of which is fixed under an Act of Congress approved June 4, 1924 ([ch. 250] 43 Stat. 367), as amended;

(iii) Offices or positions in the Metropolitan Police, in the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, and in the United States Park Police, the compensation of which is fixed under an Act of Congress approved July 1, 1930 ([ch. 783] 46 Stat. 829);

(iv) Commissioned officers and enlisted personnel in the military and naval services and the Coast Guard, and commissioned officers in the Public Health Service and the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the compensation of which is fixed under section 73 of this title, sections 292, 332, 362, 363, 386, 633, 683, 692, 912, 972-973a, 982, 1012, 1133, and 1146 of Title 10, sections 121, 163, and 166 of Title 14, sections 351, 357, 423, 641, 865, 867, 879b, and 911 of Title 34, and sections 1-3, 4-8, 9, 10, 11-13, 14, 15-21, 22-29, 30, and 31 of Title 37;

(v) Offices or positions in the Government Printing Office the compensation of which is fixed under section 40 of Title 44;

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1 So in original. The Act on 43 Stat. 1033, was approved Feb. 27, 1925, and is not relevant. Reference is probably intended to act Feb. 28, 1925, ch. 368, 43 Stat. 1053. See Tables for disposition in the Code.

Subsec. (d) (vi) amended by act Aug. 13, 1946, cited to text, which substituted "Officers * * * Foreign Service" for provisions relating to officers or positions whose compensation was fixed by other laws.

Subsec. (d) (vii) omitted by act Aug. 13, 1946, cited to text.

Subsec. (d) (viii) was amended by acts Aug. 1, 1941; Aug. 1, 1942, both cited to text. Act Aug. 1, 1941, omitted "verifiers, openers, packers, guards, inspectors, station inspectors". Act Aug. 1, 1942, omitted "and laborers" after "clerks". Appropriations, repeal, effective date relative to amendment of Aug. 1, 1941, see note under section 667 of this title.

Effective date.-Amendment of section by act Aug. 13, 1946, cited to text, was made effective three months after Aug. 13, 1946, by section 1141 of said act Aug. 13, 1946.