Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer
       Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings


I, Timothy D. Payne,  President and Chief Executive  Officer of MPS Group,  Inc.
(the "Company"), state and attest that:

(1) To the best of my knowledge,  based upon a review of the covered  reports of
the Company, and, except as corrected or  supplemented  in a subsequent  covered
report:

     o    no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as
          of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a
          report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on
          which it was filed); and

     o    no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make
          the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances
          under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period
          covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or
          definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

(2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit
committee.

(3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before
the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

     o    the  Company's  Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal  year ended
          December 31, 2001 filed with the Commission;

     o    all reports on Form 10-Q,  all reports on Form 8-K and all  definitive
          proxy materials of the Company filed with the Commission subsequent to
          the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

     o    any amendments to any of the foregoing.


/s/ Timothy D. Payne
Timothy D. Payne
President and
Chief Executive Officer
August 14, 2002

Subscribed and sworn to
before me this 14th day of August 2002.
/s/Sherri Adams
Notary Public
My Commission Expires: April 22, 2006