Civil servants’ salary increments should ‘more than exceed’ inflation rate: Chan Chun Sing

THE quantum of most civil servants’ overall salary increments should “more than exceed” the inflation rate since this year, said Minister-in-charge of the Public Service Chan Chun Sing on Monday (Nov 28).

“In total, the salary increases arising from the recent salary reviews and annual salary increments, coupled with annual AVC (annual variable component) payment, will more than exceed the inflation rate since this year for all the civil servants who meet the criteria,” Chan said in Parliament.

This comes as the Public Service Division last Thursday announced a year-end bonus of 1.1 month for the Singapore civil service, with junior officers receiving an additional lump sum of S$700.

In a supplementary question, Ang Wei Neng, Member of Parliament for West Coast GRC, asked if this meant every civil servant would get “at least 5.1 per cent of salary increment”, citing the number as the core inflation rate for October.

Chan replied that the increment applies for the majority of civil servants who have met their “performance criteria”.

“There might be a very, very small number of people who don’t meet the performance criteria, and they might be short of the 5 per cent that you mentioned,” he said, adding that the government has support packages for all Singaporean households that it believes should be able to “help those who are most in need”.

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The official full-year forecast is 4 per cent for core inflation and 6 per cent for headline inflation. For the first 10 months of the year, core inflation was at 3.9 per cent, while headline inflation has reached 6 per cent.