Maximum
limit on compensation of public officers.
No
public officer or employee except the Governor, shall receive as compensation per annum
for official services, exclusive of the compensation of legally authorized deputies and
assistants which shall be fixed and provided for by law, but inclusive of allowance for
living expenses, if any, as may be fixed and provided for by law, any amount in excess of
the following sums: Officers whose jurisdiction or duties are coextensive with the
Commonwealth, the mayor of any city of the first class, and Judges and Commissioners of
the Court of Appeals, Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000); Circuit Judges, Eight Thousand
Four Hundred Dollars ($8,400); all other public officers, Seven Thousand Two Hundred
Dollars ($7,200). Compensation within the limits of this amendment may be authorized by
the General Assembly to be paid, but not retroactively, to public officers in office at
the time of its adoption, or who are elected at the election at which this amendment is
adopted. Nothing in this amendment shall permit any officer to receive, for the year 1949,
any compensation in excess of the limit in force prior to the adoption of this amendment.