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A spokesman for the Civil Service Bureau (CSB) said the bureau had today (May 18) received the results of the 2009 Pay Trend Survey from the secretariat of the Pay Trend Survey Committee.
The results, presented in the form of 'gross pay trend indicators', show the rates of private sector pay adjustments in three defined salary bands for the period between April 2, 2008 and April 1, 2009. The Pay Trend Survey Committee will later meet to validate the gross pay trend indicators, and after which the payroll cost of civil service increments incurred in 2008-09 for each defined salary band (expressed as a percentage of the total civil service payroll cost of the particular salary band) will be deducted from the gross pay trend indicators to produce the 'net pay trend indicators'.
"The net pay trend indicators are one of the factors that the Chief Executive-in-Council will consider in deciding whether and (if so) how to adjust civil service pay for 2009-10. Other factors that will be considered are the state of the economy, the Government's fiscal position, changes in the cost of living, the staff sides' pay claims, and civil service morale," the spokesman said.
The payroll cost of civil service increments for each of the three defined salary bands incurred in 2008-09, expressed as a percentage of the total civil service payroll cost of the concerned bands, are as follows:
Cost of increment as a
percentage of the total
Salary band civil service payroll cost
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Upper 0.59%
(monthly salary from
$48,401 to $97,545)
Middle 0.64%
(monthly salary from
$15,785 to $48,400)
Lower 0.79%
(monthly salary below
$15,785)
Ends/Monday, May 18, 2009
Issued at HKT 17:39
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