CO129-547-10 Memorandum on revision of salaries 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1936 — Page 13

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EAST AFRICA REVISION OF SALARIES.

1. The main factors which must be taken into

consiueration in revising scales of salary generally

were discussed in the Colonial Office Memorandum

bofore 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 position, 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 irections, 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 tne

financial position of the various

(0)

Governments demands that no reasonaule

opportunity of effecting economies should

be neglected..

It is desirable in general to maintain as

great a measure of uniformity as possible

in regard to salary scales in the ast

Alrican Dependencies, since a dependency

which offers less favourable terms cannot

expect

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