(a) Principal office.--The principal office of the board shall be in Harrisburg, and the board shall appoint and employ such number and character of officers, agents, clerks, stenographers and employees as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The salaries of persons so appointed and employed by the board shall be fixed by the board.

(b) District offices.--The board, with the approval of the Governor, shall divide the Commonwealth for administrative purposes into a suitable number of districts, not to exceed ten, in each of which shall be a district office which shall have immediate charge of the supervision of cases of probation and parole arising in the courts of the judicial districts embraced within its territorial limits, but, as occasion may require, the supervision of particular parolees may be transferred by the board to other appropriate parole districts.

(c) Location of district offices.--

(1) The board shall fix and determine the location of the various district offices within their respective districts, having regard to local conditions in each district and to the most convenient and efficient functioning of the office established in each district.

(2) At each of the locations so fixed and determined, the board shall provide such office accommodations, furniture, equipment and supplies as may be reasonably suitable and adequate for the proper handling and dispatch of the parole business of the district.

(3) The board may enter into contracts on behalf of the Commonwealth for such office accommodations, furniture, equipment and supplies through the Department of General Services.

(d) Consideration for fixing compensation.--In fixing compensation for its officers, clerks and employees under the provisions of this chapter, the board shall have regard to the kind, grade or class of service to be rendered, and, whenever any standard compensation has been fixed by the Executive Board for any kind, grade or class of service or employment, the compensation of all persons appointed or employed by the board in the same kind, grade or class shall be fixed by it in accordance with such standard.