The executive secretary receives $9000 per annum.

The salaries of other bureau chiefs range from $2500 per annum to $7500.
The justices of the Philippine Supreme Court receive $10,000 per annum.

Judges of courts of first instance receive from $4500 to $5500.
The following extracts from an article by the chairman of the Philippine Civil Service Board give information with respect to salaries in the Philippine Islands, as compared with salaries paid in surrounding British and Dutch colonies:-- "The salaries paid officials in all branches of the service of the Straits Settlements are generally lower than those paid in the Philippine civil service.

In this connection, however, it is only just to state that the population and extent of the territory under British control, and the expenses of living, are less than in the Philippines, while the difficulty of the problems to be solved is not so great.

The salaries paid to natives who fill the lower grade positions in the civil service of the Philippine Islands are three and four times as great as the salaries paid to natives in similar classes of work in the civil service of the British Malay colonies.
"A study of the colonial civil service of the Dutch in the islands of Java and Madura gives us somewhat different results....
"The matter of salaries is peculiarly interesting.