Procurator

The Procurator was the Imperial Governor of a Procuratorial Province appointed by the Roman Emperor and was always an Equestrian.
The same title of Procurator was also held by Fiscal Procurator who was the chief Financial Officer of a Province and acted as an assistant to the Governor of Senatorial Provinces.

A Procuratorial Province was usually a newly occupied Land in transition to becoming either a Proconsular Province or a Propraetorial Province
All Procuratorial Provinces were Imperial Provinces.
It was usually a difficult Province but not on a Frontier, so it would have had a garrison but not a full Legion.
The Emperor was the direct Governor of the Procuratorial Provinces and these would be recently conquered territories.
It was a Province in transition and would subsequently become either a Senatorial or Imperial Province.

Procurators were not Roman Magistrates and did not hold Imperium themselves.
The Emperor himself held Imperium, and the Procurators exercised the Emperor’s authority by their appointment.
The Emperor appointed the Equestrian Procurator to rule on his behalf for between 1-5 years.
The Procurators ruled as Prefects.

The position of Procurator was reserved for the Equestrian Class and formed part of the Equo Publico.

Originally the Procurators pay varied from:
- 15,000 to 75,000 Denarii for the Prefect of Egypt.
Instituted under Claudius:
- Sexagenarii: 60,000 sesterces.
  - The Prefects of the Classis Alexandrina, the Classis Africana, the Commodiana Herculiea, the Classis Moesica, the Classis Perinthia, the Classis Syriaca, and the Classis Mauretaniae.
- Centenarii: 100,000 sesterces.
  - They were the Prefects of the Classis Britannica, the Classis Germanica and the Classis Pontica.
- Ducenarii: 200,000 sesterces.
  - The Prefects of the Classis Misenensis and Classis Ravennas
- Tricenarii: 300,000 sesterces.
  - The Praetorian Prefect

However, Egypt was the exception. It remained an Equestrian Procuratorial Province with 2 Legions under the Prefect, called the Praefectus Aegypti. Senators were banned from entering Egypt.