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It is difficult to justify the creation of a sub-quota for civil servants if they perform administrative and managerial duties like their private sector counterparts. If it was accepted that income was such a good indicator of success and value of managers and administrators, it should apply across the board in calculating experience points for civil servants as well. If the concern had been competition with business proprietors, the answer should have been the creation of a sub-quota for salaried executives in both the public and private sectors.
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The need for a sub-quota for business proprietors is, however, not borne out by experience in the first tranche. The income profile of private sector applicants in OG1 in the first phase of the Scheme is at Annex 4. It shows that business proprietors did not do very well when compared with the OG as a whole : 76% of them earned less than $200,000 a year (the lowest level on the points scale for earnings in OG1) as against 59% of the entire OG.
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There is no evidence to support the view that civil servants generally have lower income than their private sector counterparts either. The annual income level of the applicants in OG1 has been generally low the average was $365,000 and the median $168,000. Feedback from civil servants suggests that they believe they would have compared favourably with the private sector on this basis.
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It is recommended that civil servants who are managers and administrators should compete with their counterparts in the private sector on all fours in OG1 and that there should be no separate quota for them in the second phase of the Scheme.
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