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Originally Posted by burntgarlic
Hi all! I'm in my early 30s, but fresh from Uni. Got my first role in public service. Entered as mx13, which I assume is default for fresh grad. Salary 4.9k. 2yrs contract.
What's a typical trajectory for increments/promotion. From what I've read, promotion is only reserved after emplacement. but till then, how are the increments like? i think i can excel in this role, and would like to fast track my salary. Not sure if i intend to stay in public service long. looking to jump to private if the opportunity arise.
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Increments are based on your annual performance grades (A/B/C), which also decides your performance bonuses. Typically, its about 3-4% for C, and 5-6% for A / B.
For promotion years, its about 10% INCLUSIVE of annual increment. Meaning all-in.
For promotions, the civil service has moved away from time-based promotions to a more meritocratic way of looking at promotions in recent years, which favours the more capable.
For example, where previously a person can expect to progress from 11 to 11A in about 6 years, now. they have a 10 percentile and 50 percentile gauge.
What this means is that if for example, the top 10 percent of those who got promoted from 11 to 11A took 3 years, and the 50th percentile took 8 years, they will look at the candidates who fulfil the criteria for promotion (another story for another day) and ask themselves "is this person the top 10 percentile). If he/she is, then promoted. If not we'll take a look again next year and so on.