Sub-Advisory Agreement

      This SUB-ADVISORY AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is made as of

the 16th day of March 2007, by and between Legg Mason Partners

Fund Advisor, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the

"Manager"), and Barrett Associates, Inc., a corporation

organized under the laws of the State of New York (the

"Subadviser").

      WHEREAS, the Manager has been retained by Legg Mason

Partners Sector Series, Inc. (the "Corporation"), a registered

management investment company under the Investment Company Act

of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act") to provide investment

advisory, management, and administrative services to the

Corporation with respect to certain series of the Corporation;

and

      WHEREAS, the Manager wishes to engage the Subadviser to

provide certain investment advisory services to the

Corporation with respect to the series of the Corporation

designated in Schedule A annexed hereto (the "Fund") and

Subadviser is willing to furnish such services on the terms

and conditions hereinafter set forth;

      NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and

mutual covenants herein contained, it is agreed as follows:

      1. 	In accordance with and subject to the Management

Agreement between the Corporation and the Manager with respect

to the Fund (the "Management Agreement"), the Manager hereby

appoints the Subadviser to act as Subadviser with respect to

the Fund for the period and on the terms set forth in this

Agreement. The Subadviser accepts such appointment and agrees

to render the services herein set forth, for the compensation

herein provided.

      2. 	The Manager shall cause the Subadviser to be kept

fully informed at all times with regard to the securities

owned by the Fund, its funds available, or to become available,

for investment, and generally as to the condition of the

Fund's affairs. Manager shall furnish the Subadviser with such

other documents and information with regard to the Fund's

affairs as the Subadviser may from time to time reasonably

request.

      3. 	(a) Subject to the supervision of the Corporation's

Board of Directors (the "Board") and the Manager, the

Subadviser shall regularly provide the Fund with respect to

such portion of the Fund's assets as shall be allocated to the

Subadviser by the Manager from time to time (the "Allocated

Assets") with investment research, advice, management and

supervision and shall furnish a continuous investment program

for the Allocated Assets consistent with the Fund's investment

objectives, policies and restrictions, as stated in the Fund's

current Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information.

The Subadviser shall, with respect to the Allocated Assets,

determine from time to time what securities and other

investments will be purchased, retained, sold or exchanged by

the Fund and what portion of the Allocated Assets will be held

in the various securities and other investments in which the

Fund invests, and shall implement those decisions, all subject

to the provisions of the Corporation's Articles of

Incorporation and By-Laws (collectively, the "Governing

Documents"), the 1940 Act, and the applicable rules and

regulations promulgated thereunder by the Securities and

Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and interpretive guidance

issued thereunder by the SEC staff and any other applicable

federal and state law, as well as the investment objectives,

policies and restrictions of the Fund referred to above, and

any other specific policies adopted by the Board and disclosed

to the Subadviser. The Subadviser is authorized as the agent

of the Corporation to give instructions with respect to the

Allocated Assets to the custodian of the Fund as to deliveries

of securities and other investments and payments of cash for

the account of the Fund. Subject to applicable provisions of

the 1940 Act, the investment program to be provided hereunder

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