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They therefore suggested, and the other members of the Commission agreed, that as a
general rule the scale of expatriation pay should not exceed an average of 20 per
cent of the basic. For various reasons it was found impracticable to maintain this
average and in the result a series of platforms were unanimously recommended.
platforms are as follows:
Basic Salary in
per month.
400 499
Expatriation in
per annum.
100
500
da
849
125
850 - 1099
150
1100 1600
200
1601 2000
Above 2000
250
300
The
% of Expatriation Pay to Basic Salary.
33 1/3% -28% 33 1/3% - 20%
23%
18
20%
19%
16%
-
18%
19 1/3% - 16%
It may be mentioned that the expatriation pay recommended by the Palestine
Commission varied between a maximum of 25% and a minimum of 15%, although the West
African scales actually adopted varied between 36% and 25%.
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The cost of the Commission's recommendations in respect of basic
sal.ries is estimated to amount to $14,500,000 in a full year, over and above the
total provided in the current Estim.tes for Personal Emoluments as since supplemented
by Special Warrants. The Education, Police Medical and Sanitary Departments are responsible for nearly $9,000,000 of this increase, owing to the very large increases
in basic salaries recommended for Chinese Masters and Mistresses, Police constables
and for the artisan and coolie class. Although the Commission recommends these
large increases in basic salaries for the artisans and coolics, it will be observed
from paragraphs 188 and 189 of their report that they do not, except in a few cases
of artisans, favour any increase in total emoluments.
considerable savings in cost of living allowance to offset the additional cost in
basic salary, in such departments as the Medical and Sanitary Departments which
employ large numbers of coolics. The total saving on cost of living allowance is
partly offset by the extension of the allowance to the higher salary grades, but it is estimated that the net saving will amount to $6,500,000. The effect of the
Commission's recommendations on grant-in-aid school staffs whose amoluments are
based on Government scales, and who draw cost of living allowance t Government rates,
must also be taken into consideration and this represents an additional commitmont of approximately $1,000,000.
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There will, therefore, be
The position may, therefore, be summarised as follows:-
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