HONG KONG SALARIES COMMISSION REPORT, 1947.
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Para. 15.
Our terms of reference instructed us to
frame our recommendations bearing in mind the policy laid
down in White Paper Colonial No.197 of 1946 relating to the
organisation of the Colonial Service. The main principles
concerning salary fevision set out in that White Paper are
as follows:
"(i) The salaries of all posts in the public service
of a Colony should be determined according to the nature of the work and the relative responsibilities irrespective of the race or domicile of the individual.
(ii) The salaries should be fixed at rates applicable
to locally recruited staff, even though there may, for the time being, be grades in which few or no locally recruited officers are in fact serving.
(iii) In fixing these basic salaries regard should
be paid to the relevant circumstances, such as the ruling income levels in those classes of the community from which the public service is or will be recruited.
(iv) where the salaries so fixed are insufficient to attract and retain officers from overseas, expatriation pay should be provided for such officers.
(v)
The practice of providing free quarters for certain classes of officers should be discontinued where it exists.
16. We decided at an early stage in our discussions that in view of the policy outlined above we would recommend that in future all salaries and emoluments payable to public officers in Hong Kong should be expressed in Hong Kong currency, and that the existing distinction between sterling and dollar paid officers should be done away with. The salaries recommended in
the schedules to this Report are all expressed in Hong Kong dollars, although the sterling equivalents have been included
for purposes of comparison with existing scales. In making our
recommendations we have taken the echange value of the Hong
Kong dollar at 1/3d.
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