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NOTES TO ACCOMPANY STERLING SALARY SCHEME.
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To the foregoing list of posts in the Sterling Scheme are to be added any new non-clerical posts the salaries of which exceed $1,200 per annum.
Officers on dollar salaries in HongKong will be allowed to
Join the Sterling Scheme on transfer to Straits or Malay States.
Continued service on the Maximum salary of a class counts
towards an increment in the class above when the maximum salary of the lower class is the same as the minimum salary of the higher class.
Officers on dollar salaries acting in a Sterling post will draw half their own pay and half pay of that post in dollars at present rates.
Officers on Sterling Salaries will draw half their own pay and half the Sterling pay of the acting appointment.
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Acting officers draw half the initial pay of posts but not
so as to suffer loss on that account.
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Officers who elect to stay on a dollar salary must abide by
such at present rates during the rest of their service in HongKong, and so far as they are concerned the salaries of all appointments to which they are promoted will continue to be fixed in dollars.
Officers can join the Sterling scheme at the stage they
would have reached if increments had been fixed at the dates of their respective appointments to their present posts.
Officers on dollar salaries have the benefit of the 3/-
rate for their widows' pensions, which rate will not be continued to officers on Sterling terms.
An example of the effect on contribution to the Widows' and
Orphans'Fund is as follows:-
Officers on $1,200 per annum would pay to Widows and Orphans' Fund $48 per annum. At 1/8 this * £4 per annum.
Officers on £180 (equivalent of above at 3/-) would have to pay £7.4.0 per annua - a difference of £3. 4s. Others would be affected proportionately. The 4% on Sterling Salary would be 4% of the exact amount of dollars paid as full salary.