C.S. 166
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3
The Senior Civil Service Council is not concerned with MOD 1 salaries, but the PIU also reports private sector pay trends for these salaries. Analysing the results in the same way as the Joint Working Party analysed the Master Pay Scale data produced the following results:
Percentage increase
1976-77
1975-76 (understatement)
MOD 1
8.7%
0.33%
Comment
8
The PIU aims to get the Fay Trend Survey Report issued as soon as possible after the survey base date (1st April), in order to minimise backdating and arrears, should an increase be justified. But in issuing its report as early as possible (on 6th April this year) there is the risk that the PIU survey will not take into account any back-dated increases announced by companies after the compilation of the report. For this reason the PIU always checks its report for the previous year and notes any increases which have been implemented since its last report was issued.
9
In its 1975-76 report, using the present 68-company sample, the PIU noted that three companies had given increases in the 1974-75 survey period which had not been reported. These increases were brought to account by recalculating the weighted means for the 1974-75 period and then using the revised figures as a basis for assessing the 13% pay increase for the Civil Service in 1976, which Members approved on 9th June 1976.
10
In its latest survey for 1976-77 the PIU has reported that five companies belatedly gave increases back-dated to the 1975-76 period, and recalculation indicates the understatement referred to in paragraph 6 above. One way of dealing with these belated increases is to consider them as increases in the current survey. Recalculating the weighted means on this basis produces the following figures:
Master Pay Scale
Minimum Mid-point
Maximum Average
MOD 1
7.93%
7.63%
6.60%
7.39%
9.29%
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