Salary.
Class.
Increments. Minimum. Maximum. Biennially.
û
$
240
420
60
480
600
60
VI 660
840
V
900
1,080
60
IV | 1,200
1,500
60
111 1,800
2,100
60
206
Period in which maximum salary of class could be reached and enjoyed for 1
term. Years.
6
8
52
6
12
12
Class II ($2,160 to $2,400) and Class 1 ($2,400 to $3,000) have
been omitted from the table as the appointments in these classes
have all been, or are to be, made Prize Appointments with Sterling
Salaries, with the exception of two, viz.:- the Accountant in the
Post Office and the Third Clerk in the Harbour Office.
1
The defects in this system are as follows:-
(1.) The long period required to gain increments in the
junior classes and the smallness of the increments in the senior
classes make these increments of little moment to clerks. A man
who has served about a year will scarcely take the prospective
rise of $60 at the end of another year as an inducement to con-
tinue in the service should any other employment be offered to hir.
Later on an average rise of $30 per annum seems out of proportion
to salaries of 32 to 70 times that amount.
(2.) The unsystematic variation in the periods taken to
pass from the minimum to maximum salary in the various classes
tends against the continuous promotion from class to class which
is an incentive to work. For instance the fact that in the 7th.
and 5th. classes the maximum is attained in 4 years while in the
6th, and 4th, classes it is only attained in 6 and 10 years res-
pectively tends to create unnecessary blocks in the 7th. and 5th.
classes.
(3.) The impossible length of time required to pass by
regular promotion from the bottom to the top of the list must
deter promising young men from joining the service unless they can
do
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