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Originally Posted by Unregistered
actually i am curious about the reason that was given for the recent salary revisision for the lower and middle civil servants. The official reason was that because their salaries lagged behind the market rate (civil servants recieve a letter informing them of their increment and this reason was stated).
However, that would mean that the private sector actually has been earning consistently more since 2008 (year of the last major pay revision for those on the management executive scheme (MXS). Wonder how true is that.
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Of course not true. While the 'high' in private sector can be very high, the majority of the private sector jobs are not paying as well as govt ones, for jobs with comparable level of responsibilities, scope, real/actual working hours and demand.