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Europeans are paid in dollars. It is, I gather,
a distinction between the locally-recruited
officer and the officer recruited from this
country.
The differentiation in the scale of
levy is a considerable one, as the following
examples will show
they are based on a
conversion rate of 1/6 which is proposed for
the first quarter of the year, and the rates of
levy for dollar salaries shown at Y in the
the figures a neglect telegram (i.e. in both cases the cost of living
catombatect the additional levy which the offices The Denis are ne_losted-for- var yoses of
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subjected for purposes of cnt of living adjustments)
comparison.
(1) A dollar paid officer drawing $3,200 would
pay a levy of 190 dollars or 3% of his salary.
A sterling paid officer drawing £240 (= $3,200)
would pay no levy at all. A sterling paid
officer would not pay a levy amounting to 6%
of his salary over-all unless he were drawing
well over £1000 a year.
(2) A dollar paid officer drawing $7,500 would
pay a levy of
fō70 marcas
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9%.
A sterling paid officer drawing £562/10/-
($7,500) would pay levy of less than £24
(= $320) 4.3%.
This differentiation is open to
criticism on two grounds viz:-
(a) as between two officers whose income in
dollars is the same, it imposes a much
heavier burden on the officer paid originally
in dollars as compared with the officer
paid