Exhibit 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
Shelf Registration on Form S-3
Each of the undersigned directors and/or officers of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
(the “Corporation”), a Pennsylvania corporation, hereby names, constitutes and appoints Richard J.
Johnson, Randall C. King and George P. Long, III, or any of them, each acting alone, as such
person’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities
in connection with the Registration Statement (“Registration Statement”) on Form S-3 (or other
appropriate form) for the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
“Securities Act”), and pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder of: (i) guarantees by the Corporation
(“Guarantees”) of PNC Funding Corp’s unsecured debt securities (“Debt Securities”), which
Registration Statement shall also relate to such Debt Securities; (ii) shares of the Corporation’s
common stock, par value $5 per share (including the associated preferred share purchase rights that
are not exercisable or evidenced separately from the common stock prior to the occurrence of
certain events) (“Common Stock”); (iii) shares of the Corporation’s preferred stock, par value $1
per share (“Preferred Stock”); (iv) depositary shares representing Preferred Stock (“Depositary
Shares”), to be evidenced by depositary receipts to be issued pursuant to a deposit agreement in
the event the Corporation elects to offer fractional interests in shares of Preferred Stock; (v)
warrants of PNC Funding Corp for the purchase of Debt Securities, and warrants of the Corporation
to purchase Common Stock, Depositary Shares or Preferred Stock (“Warrants”); (vi) purchase
contracts for the purchase or sale of Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Depositary Shares, Debt
Securities, or securities of a third party (“Purchase Contracts”); and (vii) units composed of a
combination of any other securities registered under the Registration Statement (“Units”); with an
unspecified proposed maximum aggregate offering price for such Debt Securities, Common Stock,
Preferred Stock and Warrants (as permitted under the Securities Act) for issuance of up to a
proposed maximum aggregate offering price of $3,000,000,000, plus (a) an indeterminate number of
shares of Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Depositary Shares and an indeterminate principal amount of
Debt Securities, in each case issuable upon conversion, exchange or exercise of the Preferred
Stock, Debt Securities or Warrants registered thereunder, and (b) an indeterminate number of shares
of Common Stock, Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares as applicable, issuable upon the settlement
of the Purchase Contracts registered thereunder; and in connection with any and all amendments to
the Registration Statement and all instruments necessary or in connection therewith, including to
sign the Registration Statement and any and all amendments and supplements relating thereto
(including stickers and post-effective amendments), in the name and on behalf of Corporation and in
the name and on behalf of such officer or director of the Corporation; to sign any and all
additional registration statements relating to the same offering of securities as the Registration
Statement that are filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act; to attest to the seal of
the Corporation thereon; and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, any state securities commission
and any applicable securities exchange or securities self-regulatory organization; hereby granting
to said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them acting alone, the full power and authority
to do and perform every act and thing requisite, necessary or advisable to be
done in and about the premises, as fully and to all intents and purposes as any such officer or
director might or could do in person; and said persons are authorized to take or cause to be taken
any and all such further actions in connection therewith in the name and on behalf of the
Corporation as they, in their sole discretion, deem necessary or appropriate;
And each of the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that any said attorney-in-fact
and agent, or any substitute, lawfully does or causes to be done by virtue hereof.