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"nclosure 2
Extract from a Lemorandum for the Executive"
Council discussed in February 1970
d) Pay scales and incremental progression
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Many ranks in the Civil Service have pay scales with fixed minimum and maximum points and annual incrementa between these points. There are two main reasons for having scales:
(a) the maximum (the rate for the job) should
not be paid unless an officer is fully experienced and competent; and
(b)
...any ranks, particularly in the general grades, encompass a range of work of varying complexity and junior officers, on the lower points of the scale, are posted to the less demanding work, while senior officers are put on the more difficult jobs.
Frogression through the scale depends on satisfactory performance.
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Officers in the Directorate (3,850 and above) are not on incremental pay scales. The increments in the OD 1 scale (minor staff) are about 1%, in the Disciplined (rank and file) scales (e.g. policemen and firemen) about 3% and in the Master Pay Scale about 44 - 5%. The number of increments for ranks on the Faster Pay Scale varies from, for example, twenty increments for the Fest Control Assistant to one or two increments for senior ranks at the top of the scale. There are also some fixed point salaries in the Master Pay Scale.
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Increments are received up to the maximum of the scale and on 31st January 1976 the position was as follows.
Scale
Number of civil servants
Total
On maximum
Directorate
485
Master Pay Scale
43,175
485 13,183
Disciplined
19,730
4,132
MOD 1
38,254
14,070
Others
2,852
1,200
104,496
33,070
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