1986 Pay Level Survey Results
Annex A
Hay Management Consultants were appointed in May 1986 to undertake pay level surveys of the Directorate and the non- directorate and to submit separate reports to the two advisory bodies.
Hay Method
2.
It was recognised that most civil service jobs do not have analogues in the private sector. No attempt was therefore made to directly match jobs in the civil service with those in the private sector. Instead Hay Management Consultants employed their well-tried and widely used method of job evaluation, under which the size of each job is measured as scientifically as possible using a common set of criteria, thereby permitting the comparison of jobs of different nature. The Hay method used three common elements to assess the contents of each job :
(a)
(b)
(c)
Know-how, i.e. the qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience required to enable the job to be carried out properly;
Problem solving, i.e. the original thinking required by the job for analysing, evaluating, creating, reasoning, arriving at and making conclusions; and
Accountability, i.e. the answerability for decisions/actions and for the
consequences thereof.
The total number of points scored for each job is then calculated and matched with the salary and the total remuneration of the job inside and outside the civil service.
3.
The approach adopted by Hay involved :
(a) the analysis and evaluation of about 400
non-directorate jobs within 141 ranks, and 63 Directorate jobs in the civil service from D1/DJL1 to D6/DJL6;
(b) The analysis and evaluation of about
2,000 private sector jobs from 52 companies;
(c)
the collection of base salary and fringe benefits data as at 31 August 1986; and
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