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All posts in the grade were surveyed by the Pay and Structure and Organisation and Methods Divisions.

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The grade is at present structured on a 15: 4 : 1 ratio and is remunerated as follows :

Rank II Rank I

$1400

2240

$2365

3070

Senior CA

$3225

3745

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Following restructuring there will be

258 Confidential Assistants and 10 Senior

Confidential Assistants; the latter in supervising posts. Confidential Assistants I will retain their present pay scale.

SIGNIFICANT FEATURES

50.

The restructuring of the Secretarial Class is a major exercise designed to give Government the kind of secretarial and typing services it needs both today and in the foreseeable future.

51.

A further aim is to introduce pay scales which give pay for the job, adequate career scales which will bear comparison with scales of those having broadly similar duties and responsibilities elsewhere in Government and scales whose maximum points are closely related to the median of pay of the larger, better employers in the private sector for work similar in kind and responsibility.

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Practically all junior ranks are receiving a significant increase in pay; Typists by one increment, at both the minimum and maximum, Stenographers by two increments at the maximum, Personal Secretaries by four increments at the minimum and two increments above the old maximum of Personal Secretary II (with Personal Secretaries I retaining their present pay scale) and Confidential Assistants by two increments above the old maximum of Confidential Assistant II (with Confidential Assistants I retaining their present pay scale).

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