CO129-524-1 Reports of Salaries Commission 31-12-1929 - 27-10-1930 — Page 199

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marriage, that is after six years completed

service, reveals:-

(a) Engineers in the Public Works Department

£730 per annum.

(b) European Masters in the Education Department

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£710 per annum.

(c) Assistants in the Government Analyst's

Department

£675

per annum.

We therefore beg to submit to Your Lordship that

these figures confirm, in a marked degree, the

commencing salary of £675 previously proposed by

us which would enable a married officer on join-

ing the service to live in a reasonable manner.

In England, corresponding salaries

for these officers on appointment would be:- (a) £200 - £260 per annum, age 24 - 28.

(b) £240 - £300

(c) ₤240

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approximately per annum, age 24 - 28.

In Hong Kong, under the Commission's Report they

will receive on appointment:

(a) £550 per annum, age 28.

(b) £500

(c) £500

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26.

A Board of Trade Surveyor's commencing salary at Home in 1929 is £414, which shows that for members

of these three professions and our own, of similar

age, the salary on attaining a like age at which

a Board of Trade Surveyor is engaged is practically

uniform and substantiates still further our claim

that the figure of 675 is the minimum on which a

surveyor in this office should be asked to commence.

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