It is the intent of I Liheslatura that all full-time attorneys working for the government of Guam, its agencies and instrumentalities (including autonomous agencies and instrumentalities), the Judiciary, and the Public Defender Service Corporation be paid according to the following schedule in order to make the pay received by full-time attorneys working for different departments and agencies more or less uniform. Therefore, all full-time attorneys now working for or later hired after the effective date of this Section by the government of Guam, its agencies and instrumentalities (including autonomous agencies and instrumentalities), the Judiciary, and the Public Defender Service Corporation including classified, unclassified, and contract hire shall be paid according to the following schedule. However, no attorney working for the government of Guam on the effective date of this Act shall have his or her salary reduced by this schedule below.

ATTORNEY I

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(a) An attorney with zero (0) to three (3) years experience as an attorney, working under the supervision of a senior attorney or judge. The pay scale and steps shall be as follows:
Step 1 — under one (1) year as an attorney, $40,352; Step 2– more than one (1) year but less than two (2)
years as an attorney, $42,874; and
Step 3– more than two (2) years but less than three (3)
years as an attorney, $45,396.
ATTORNEY II
(b) An attorney with three (3) years experience but less than five (5) years experience as an attorney, working under the supervision of a senior attorney. The pay scale and steps shall be as follows:
Step 1 — more than three (3) years but less than four (4)
years experience as an attorney, $47,008;
Step 2 — more than four (4) years but less than five (5)
years experience as an attorney, $49,773.
ATTORNEY III
(c) A senior attorney with over five (5) years but less than eight (8) years experience as an attorney, working with minimal supervision, who may supervise and direct other attorneys. The hiring authority may allow up to two (2) years of attorney experience credit or seniority credit for special skills, training, or excellence as an attorney. The pay scale and steps shall be as follows:
Step 1 — more than five (5) years but less than six (6)
years experience as an attorney, $51,723;
Step 2 — more than six (6) years but less than seven (7)
years experience as an attorney, $54,765; and
Step 3 — more than seven (7) years but less than eight
(8) years experience as an attorney, $59,329.
ATTORNEY IV
(d) An Attorney IV includes all non-supervisory and program-supervisor senior attorneys, to include, the Chief Deputy Attorney General, and the Public Defender. A senior attorney with

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over eight (8) years as an attorney, working with minimal supervision, with possible supervisory duties over other attorneys. The hiring authority may allow up to three (3) years of attorney experience credit or seniority credit for special skills, trial experience, training, or excellence as an attorney, to the extent the attorney has less than eleven (11) years of experience as an attorney. The pay scale and steps shall be as follows:
Step 1 — over eight (8) years but less than nine (9) years of experience as an attorney, $62,114;
Step 2 — over nine (9) years but less than ten (10) years of experience as an attorney, $68,493;
Step 3 — over ten (10) years but less than eleven (11)
years of experience as an attorney, $72,522;
Step 4 — over eleven (11) years but less than twelve
(12) years of experience as an attorney, $75,208;
Step 5 — over twelve (12) years but less than fifteen (15)
years of experience as an attorney, $77,894; and
Step 6 — over fifteen (15) years experience as an attorney, $80,580.

Any attorney who has sixteen (16) years or more of total experience as an attorney, and who has reached the level of Attorney IV, Step 6, shall thereafter receive a pay increase of 3.5% every two (2) years of service as a government of Guam attorney.
In the case of attorneys working for the government of Guam as of the effective date of this Section, the Department of Administration shall review the current attorney’s salaries and slot the attorneys into the appropriate step and grade of the previous salary structure without regard to any freeze on salaries that may have occurred. After placing the attorneys at the appropriate step and grade, the attorneys shall then be slotted in accordance with the above schedule closest to, but not below the step and grade established by the Department of Administration and to receive pay increases established by the new salary structure on their anniversary of hire. The slotting into the appropriate steps closest to, but not below their current salaries shall include all experience and seniority credits.

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The salary schedules contained in Subsections (a) through (d) above may be modified upwards from time to time by the Director of Administration pursuant to the Administrative Adjudication Act public notice requirements without further legislation.

SOURCE: GC § 4106.1. Added by P.L. 13-117:5 (Dec 27, 1975). Amended by P.L. 15-147:25 (Dec 31, 1980). Repealed and reenacted by P.L. 16-072:11 (Mar 5, 1982), 16-080:7 (May 4, 1982), 17-006:30 (May
5, 1983) and 19-052:8 (Jan 16, 1989). Amended by P.L. 27-106:VI:20 (Sept. 30, 2004).

NOTE: Effective January 1, 2006, reference to the “”Civil Service
Commission,”” amended to “”Director of Administration”” pursuant to P.L.
28-68:IV:45 (Sept. 30, 2005).

2014 NOTE: P.L. 32-068:XI:2 (Sept. 11, 2013) (FY2014 Annual
Appropriations Act), Government of Guam Competitive Wage Act of
2014, provided for funding and implementation of the Government-wide Position Classification, Compensation and Benefits Study, and required transmittal of a final, implementable plan to the Guam Legislature. The
Department of Administration (DOA) submitted a plan on January 15,
2014, which included an Attorney Pay Plan. The Guam Legislature passed Bill 268-32 (COR) which amended the plan submitted by DOA. The Governor vetoed this bill and proceeded with implementation of the DOA
plan, for employees in executive branch line agencies, effective January
26, 2014. At the time of implementation by DOA, none of the existing statutes in this chapter had been amended or repealed. The Judicial Council of Guam did not implement the new pay plans for Judiciary of Guam
attorneys.

The Attorney Pay Plan found in the DOA implementation plan is reproduced below:

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2017 NOTE: The Judicial Council of Guam implemented the Attorney Pay Plan for Judiciary of Guam employees pursuant to Judicial Council Resolution No. JC14-016 (July 17, 2014), subsequent to the amendment to Judicial Council authority effectuated by P.L. 32-166 (June 24, 2014).