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five or ten years ever fall below $1.50 per day and that in the middle ranges of salaries an increase of 30% is justified. The increase should in our opinion be in the neighbourhood of 200% in the lowest salary range and should gradually fall to 30% on salaries of about $1000 per month; it should then taper to 20% on salaries of about $1500 per month. For salaries over 1500 per month we have proposed a flat rate of increase of approximately $300 per month. To apply these increases evenly to the whole service we constructed a graph which vas used as a guide to determine the minima and maxima of many of the rates of pay which we recommend. In putting forward these proposals, we wish to omphasise that, in our opinion, these increases in basic salaries are of a conservative nature and will not result in inflation, since they will in the majority of cases bo below the total emoluments at present being received by Government officers and since in our opinion it will be necessary for some time to pay in addition to those rovised salarios a temporary high cost of living allowince which will gradually disappear as conditions become more stable.
Basis of recommendations in the case of officers in the Unified Colonial Services.
22.
In the case of sclarive for members of tho Unified Coloni∙d Services, we have calculated our proposed rates of incronse upon the so called African scales introduced between 1937 and 1939 and have ignored obsolescent scales. The rosult is that although in the majority of cases officers on pro-African scales will benofit slightly, the rate of increase for such officers is considerably less than for officers appointed after 1st April, 1937. Whore the proposed now scales do not give any immediate financial benefit in nett emoluments (exclusive of high cost of living allowance), wo rocommend that such officers should be allowed to choose within a limited to who thor to romain on their present conditions of service or whether to come on to the new scales. This question is dealt with in greater detail in Chapter XI.
Regrading.
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23.
In cortuin enses we have recommended scales which will result in an increase considerably in excess of the percentages montioned in paragraph 21 above. arc of the, opinion that several classes of Government servants were considerably underpaid before the war and we have endeavoured to rectify such anomalies. We have, however, ondeavoured to avoid being influenced in our recommendations by the temporary scarcity value of certain categories of officers. If it is impossible in the near future to obtain suitably qualified candidates at the rates we propose, wo recommend that Government should adopt a policy of tem orary appointments on short term contracts at higher stron in the salary scrles and that candidates should, on the expiry of their contracts, be offered, if satisfactory, permanent and mensionable orployment on the scales we have suggestod.
Grading of Deputy and Assistant Heads of Departments.
24.
The Commission bas xpurionccd some difficulty