No Pay Hike for Ministers & Top Civil Servants

[Ivan_06]

CABINET ministers, appointment holders and top civil servants will not be getting a pay increase for the second year running, in view of the uncertain economic recovery.

 

Salaries were to have gone up in January as part of salary revisions that follow from benchmarking to the private sector. But the move was deferred at that time as Singapore had slipped into recession.

 

Announcing the second deferment on Thursday, the Public Service Division (PSD) said that annual salaries of officers in the elite Administrative Service, and of political, judicial and statutory appointment holders, will in fact shrink by up to 22 per cent this year.

 

This means that the annual salary for ministers at the entry-level grade of MR4, for example, will amount to $1.49 million this year, down from $1.92 million last year.

 

For Administrative Officers on the Superscale Grade (SR9), annual pay packages will be down to $338,100 this year - a 15 per cent decline from $399,500 last year.

As part of Government efforts to retain talent, salaries are benchmarked to top earners in the private sector and reviewed yearly

[Ryosuke]

doesn't affect them much really.

just peanuts to them.

[Curahee]

Economy gd liao, they will up their salary at a "crazy" rate to compensate the "loss"

[Porche]

their pay is rocket high liao, to increase or not doesn't really affect them.

[Alpha78]

Hurray?

[relacker]

will it lead to increasing corruption?

[Spoony]

since when do they deserved to increase pay

[Iisterry]

Hong Kong Chief Executive, Top Civil Servants To Take 5.38% Pay Cut

By Chester Leung from Dow Jones, 25 November 2009

 

Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang said Tuesday he will take a pay cut of 5.38% along with government ministers and senior civil servants because of the economic downturn.

 

Middle and lower band civil servants will have their pay frozen, Tsang told reporters after an Executive Council meeting. Tsang, whose monthly salary is HK$ 371,885 (US$47,678), according to chief executive office spokeswoman Jacqueline Cheuk, said the changes will take effect July 1.

 

An independent committee earlier recommended a pay cut of 5.38% for top- salaried civil servants, a pay cut of 1.98% for the middle salary band, and a cut of 0.96% for the lower band, following the administration