Electrophoretic mobility of salmeterol and phenylpropanolamine in capillary electrophoresis has been determined using acetate buffer containing different concentrations of water, methanol and acetonitrile. Maximum electrophoretic mobilities for salmeterol and phenylpropanolamine have been observed at water-methanol-acetonitrile (5:50:45, v/v) and (3:60:37, v/v), respectively, while minimum mobilities of both compounds occurred at methanol-acetonitrile (30:70, v/v). The generated experimental data have been used to evaluate a mathematical model to compute the electrophoretic mobility of the analytes. The proposed model reproduced the mobility data with mean percentage deviations within 1-4%.