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administration Sec. 201. (a) The Postmaster General shall determine the personnel requirements of the postal field sendee, and fix the number of supervisors and other employees in such service, except that not more than one assistant postmaster may be employed at any post office. He shall define the various positions other than the key positions specified in section 203 of this Act and the st andard positions of postmaster in a fourth-class office and rural carrier. He shall assign each such position to its appropriate salary level in the Postal Field Service Schedule. He shall ascertain the appropriate salary level of a position (1) by comparing the duties, responsibilities, and work requirements of the position with the duties, responsibilities, and work requirements of key positions described in section 203 of this Act, and (2) by ranking the position in relation to the key position most closely comparable in terms of the level of duties, responsibilities, ami work requirements. (b) In ranking positions, the Postmaster General shall apply the principle of equal pay for substantially equal work and give effect to substantial differences in difficulty of (he work to be performed, in the degree of responsibility to be exercised, in the scope and variety of tasks involved, and in the conditions of performance. (c) There shall not at any one time be more than forty employees in positions assigned to salary level 17, twelve employees in positions assigned to salary level 18, four employees in positions assigned to salary level 19, or fifteen employees in positions assigned to salary level 20. (d) The Postmaster General’s determinations under this section shall be the basis for the payment of compensation and for personnel transactions.