MPS GROUP INC
EX. 10.16(A)  AMENDMENT TO EDCP
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<DESCRIPTION>EX. 10.16(A)  AMENDMENT TO EDCP
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                   Resolution of the Compensation Committee of
                    the Board of Directors of MPS Group, Inc.

     WHEREAS,  the Corporation  maintains the MPS Group, Inc. Executive Deferred
Compensation Plan (the " Plan"); and

     WHEREAS, the Plan may be amended by the Compensation Committee of the Board
of Directors of the Corporation (the "Committee"); and

     WHEREAS, the Committee believes it is in the Corporation's best interest to
amend the Plan to allow Plan  participants  to elect to defer into the Plan,  in
addition to a percentage of salary,  bonus, and commissions,  (i) a portion of a
participant's compensation equal to any corrective distribution amounts that are
distributed in a plan year to the participant from the  Corporation's  qualified
defined  contribution  retirement plan because of limitations under the Internal
Revenue Code, and/or (ii) the portion of a participant's compensation for a Plan
Year in excess of the  "contribution  and  benefit  base," as  determined  under
Section 230 of the Social Security Act (the "Social  Security Wage Base"),  that
would have been  withheld  from the  participant's  compensation  to satisfy the
participant's  portion of the Social  Security Tax had the  participant's  total
wages not exceeded the Social Security Wage Base.

     NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED,  That the MPS Group, Inc.  Executive Deferred
Compensation  Plan be and hereby is amended  pursuant to the Amendment  attached
hereto as Exhibit A; and

     FURTHER  RESOLVED,  That the  appropriate  officers of the  Corporation are
hereby  authorized and empowered to take any and all action,  to execute any and
all  documents,  agreements,  instruments  and  certificates  or to  cause to be
executed  and  delivered  all  such  documents   agreements,   instruments   and
certificates,  in the name and on behalf of the Corporation or to otherwise,  as
such officers may deem necessary, advisable or appropriate,  effectuate or carry
out the purpose and intent of the foregoing resolution, and that such actions of
the  officers  taken to date to  effectuate  these  purposes  and to perform the
obligations of the Corporation under the agreements and instruments  referred to
above are hereby approved and ratified as the actions of the Corporation.




                                    Exhibit A

                                AMENDMENT TO THE
                                 MPS GROUP, INC.
                      EXECUTIVE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

     This Amendment to the MPS Group, Inc. Executive Deferred  Compensation Plan
(the "Plan") is hereby made effective and approved by the Compensation Committee
of the Board of Directors of MPS Group, Inc.

1.   A new definition shall be added after Section 2.21 to read as follows:

     "Section 2.22 Excess Contributions.  "Excess  Contributions" means elective
     deferrals and matching  contributions under the Company's qualified defined
     contribution  retirement  plan that are  distributed to the  Participant as
     excess deferrals under Section 401(k) of the Code due to failure to satisfy
     the ADP test or excess  contributions  under Section 401(m) of the Code due
     to failure to satisfy the ACP test."

2.   Existing  Sections  2.22  through 2.39 shall be  renumbered  to reflect the
     addition of the new Section 2.22.

3.   Subpart  (i) of  Section  4.01 of the  Plan  shall  be  amended  to read as
     follows:

     "(i) the amount of Eligible  Compensation  for the Plan Year or performance
     period to which the Participation  Agreement relates that is to be deferred
     under the Plan (the  "Deferred  Amount"),  which shall be  expressed in the
     following   manner  (or  in  such  other  manner  as  the  Committee  shall
     prescribe):  (a) as a percentage or specified  amount of all or a specified
     portion of Base Salary,  Bonus Compensation  and/or  commissions,  (b) as a
     portion of Base Salary equal to any Excess Contributions received in a Plan
     Year, and/or (c) as a portion of Base Salary in excess of the "contribution
     and benefit base," as determined  under Section 230 of the Social  Security
     Act (the "Social  Security Wage Base"),  that would have been withheld from
     the  Participant's  Base Salary  during the  remainder  of the Plan Year to
     satisfy  the  Participant's  portion  of the  Social  Security  Tax had the
     Participant's  total  wages not  exceeded  the Social  Security  Wage Base;
     provided, that the minimum Deferred Amount for any Plan Year or performance
     period shall be $2,000;"

     All the provisions of the Plan not specifically mentioned in this Amendment
shall be considered  modified to the extent  necessary to be consistent with the
changes made by this Amendment.


                                              MPS Group, Inc.


                                               By___________________________
                                                Its





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