Ministers' & Top Civil Servants' Pay Increase Deferred As Benchmark Falls

[SNAblog]

When the benchmark rises, ministers' and top civil servants' pay, which is pegged to it, were adjusted upward accordingly in the past. Now that the same benchmark has fallen, shouldn't there be a corresponding revision downwards in their salaries?

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_607139.html

Nov 25, 2010
MINISTERS' & TOP OFFICERS' PAY - Pay adjustment deferred
Reason: Private sector benchmarks used to calculate pay have fallen
By Li Xueying, Political Correspondent

A PLANNED adjustment of the pay of Cabinet ministers and top civil servants to align it with salaries in the private sector has been deferred - for the third time.

The adjustment was to have been made in January last year, but was deferred then, and again last November, because of the weak economy.

A statement from the Public Service Division (PSD) said the Government will monitor economic growth and movement of the pay benchmarks 'before making any subsequent decision on when to implement the salary adjustment'.

The deferment applies to administrative service officers, and those who hold political, judicial and statutory appointments.

Explaining the deferment despite a roaring economy this year, the PSD said the two private sector benchmarks it uses to decide the pay of these officers had fallen. The first benchmark - 2/3M48 - pegs pay to two-thirds of the salary of the 24th highest earner in a group comprising the top eight earners from six selected professions. This benchmark is used to determine the pay of entry-level ministers and senior permanent secretaries.

The second benchmark - 15P32 - pegs pay to that of the 15th top earner aged 32 in the same six professions. It is used to decide the salaries of entry-grade Superscale administrative service officers.

 

[Glaringly]

Another of those PAP bloody logic.

So, it is true that private sector salaries have been falling since Jan last year. And for the third time in a row they have to hold off the cut of the civil servants pay. What bloody pegging is that?

And what's the claim of economy is booming and salaries still heading south? KNN treating us like Donkey.

 

[po2wq]

... Explaining the deferment despite a roaring economy this year, the PSD said the two private sector benchmarks it uses to decide the pay of these officers had fallen. ...

tis clearly shows dat peasants r not benefitting from ze so-called 'roaring economy' @ all ... despite all ze boasts ...

 

[Capano2121]

Sinkies should support fully the multi million dollars salaries of ministers as the economy will grow by 15%. Hell if i am the ministers, i will definitely push for 15% now to reflect on the forecast and another further 30% pay rise in december to reflect on the forecast growth from current performance in 2012 and why not just forecasted that for the next five years after election there will be a 15% growth on a year to year basis and strongly demand that their salary should be adjusted upwards by 4 times as the economy will grow unperturbed!

Ministers shouldn't content with just million dollars annual salaries, they should settle for multi million dollars salaries on a weekly basis from now on and PAP should redraw the zoning to five hdb blocks as a constituency and the parliament should increase its MP numbers from the current crowd to well over 12000 MPs as they will be representing five blocks of HDB per person and in each condo estate there will be 5 mps taking care of them and for every street in landed property evry 300 metres shall have one multi million dollar ministers seeing to their citizens rights! More PAP MPs meant more monthly party contribution received!

Hell with it! For every 10 citizens there should be 1 MP to better take care of the citizens because of the multi million dollars pay! MPs has a better job at ignoring, oops sorry should be focusing on the welfare of the peasants as more attention are focused!

Sinkies should support this as the current ministers are really overworked, imagine trying to ignore tens of thousands of peasants in your constituency, they will end up noticing some peasants and end up saying hello to them, that would be a deviation from their job scope, imagine just ten peasants and you can totally focus to ignore this ten individual, isn't that what we call optimising?

The PAP MPs job scope is to ignore and they should work harder by doing so. So increasing the numbers of MPs & their salaries to lighten their load is the only way to increase their productivity!

Job scope of all civil servants especially ministers & superscale CS

1) To ignore all peasants
2) To carry out the instruction of their superior officers to totally ignore the peasants
3) As and when, above & beyond their duty of ignoring the peasants, to carry out their duty in the utmost diligent to ignore the peasants & their problems
4) To carry out their duty in utmost diligents to ignore the surrounding and focus on securing pay rises resulting in the increase of pay scale from millions per year to millions per week.
5) The Leegime welcome you to the family and look forward to your hard work & diligence in ignoring all peasants. Once again, the famiLEE welcome you to the ignorant Leegime & look forward to your contribution in bringing this organisation to a new height of total ignorance!

 

[beatific1979]

Index up, pay up.
Index down, pay freeze.

So good deal? Pay will never go down.