EAST AFRICA
G
REVISION OF SALARIES
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B.
1.
The main factors which must be taken into consideration in revising scales of salary generally were discussed in the Colonial Office Memorandum before the Governors' Conference in March, 1933. They may be briefly summarised as follows:-
(a) The Service must be sufficiently attractive to men of the
requisite standard of education and personality to compete with opportunities for employment outside the Government sphere.
(b) Salaries must be not only appropriate to an officer's posi-
tion, but adequate to enable him to undertake the normal commitments of a married man at a reasonably early stage in his career.
(c) Changes in salary scales must take account of changes in conditions of service in other directions, particularly in this case in the pension constant.
(a) Changes in economic conditions in recent years justify some corresponding adjustment in Civil Service remuneration and the financial position of the various Governments demands that no reasonable opportunity of effecting economies should be neglected.
(e) It is desirable in general to maintain as great a measure
of uniformity as possible in regard to salary scales in the East African Dependencies, since a dependency which offers less favourable terms cannot expect to maintain the same standard of recruitment as those which offer more favour- able terms.
2. The new Administrative scale, which has been framed in the light of these considerations, provides on the one hand for a con- siderable reduction in the initial rate of salary, and on the other hand for steeper increments in the earlier stages and for a higher maximum. The proposals now put forward for revising the standard scales in other departments, based as they are on the same principles, follow similar lines, but the manner and extent of the changes suggested vary with the varying circumstances (as regards for example, qualifi- cations, sources of recruitment, and conditions of employment in East Africa) applicable to the different branches of the Service.
standard scales proposed are:-
Ordinary Civil Department Scale:-
The
£350, £350, £400 - 25
*
£550: /
£600 30 £750: //
£780 30
B
£840 40
£920.
Professional and Technical Scalę:-
£425, £425, £450 25 £600: /
30 £840 //
£660 £880
THE
C
40
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N.B.
£1,000.
denotes Efficiency Bar.
// denotes Promotion Bar.
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