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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Yes and no. If you recall, the last salary increment across the board was in 2012 (or was it 2011?). That means even MX11 and 10 got the increment. And now, MX11 and above got additional increment, wherease MX12 and 13 do not. The whole intention of the previous salary increment was to already match all current salaries to the private sector. So saying that MX12 and 13 got better starting salary don't really hold.
So this move to exclude MX12 and 13 isn't a good one. To be honest, the starting salary of fresh grad 4 years ago and now probably increased by $100? That's definitely less than 5% increment. They could probably omit MX13 (as they are fresh grad afterall), but to omit MX12 who are in the system for at least a year or more?
But yes, you are right that this is a scenario of those who got it will be happy, and vice versa.
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Yes indeed, salaries were revised in 2012. From then till now (2 years), the starting incomes should not have differed much. Not sure if any forummer has been tracing the trends in starting pay though. If so, then i am not certain what are the objectives of the additional pay increment for MX 11s and above and whether it is civil service wide in the first place. Probably got to wait for press release.
I was thinking that MX10s above are already having a rather high pay. Very few private sector jobs can command similar salaries. Thus increment for them for retention purposes seems to be a little hard to swallow. For MX 11's probably to increase pay by that much to make it more painful to leave the civil service. It could have been an statistical exercise to begin with, by looking at median salaries of various age groups and benchmark from there. Or it could be election coming.... hehe. All guesswork yah.