Salaries for about 23,000 civil servants to go up by between 5% and 14%

IN A move to “attract and retain” talent and “keep pace with” the market, the civil service will be adjusting the salaries of some 23,000 civil servants upwards by between 5 and 14 per cent. The pay adjustment will take effect from Aug 1.

Revisions to the Civil Service generic schemes were last made in 2014, and since then, salary levels in the market have gone up, the Public Service Division (PSD) said in a statement on Sunday (Jun 5). 

The latest round of adjustments, which will impact officers performing diverse roles across the civil service, including policymaking and administration, will “enable the civil service to continue to attract and retain its fair share of talent”, PSD added.

Officers in the management executive scheme, management support scheme and corporate support scheme will get salary adjustments of between 5 and 10 per cent.

Within the group, higher adjustments will be given to civil services with grades that have larger gaps with the market benchmark, it pointed out.

Meanwhile, officers in the operations support scheme will see their salaries go up by between 6 and 14 per cent. This is in line with a call by the Tripartite Workgroup on Lower-Wage Workers to uplift the salaries of lower-wage workers, PSD said.

Alongside the adjustment, PSD is working with the Amalgamated Union of Public Employees to redesign such officers’ jobs, improve career progression and raise productivity in the long run, it noted.

PSD, meanwhile, said that salary adjustments aside, the public service will continue to step up efforts to provide officers with meaningful career opportunities and support officers’ growth and development. 

These include job attachments, structured job rotations, formal training and project work, it stated, adding that the public service has also introduced hybrid work arrangements as well as flexible work options.

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“The pandemic has underscored the importance of a strong public service. The public service is committed to attracting, developing and retaining a future-ready workforce that can continue to deliver its best for Singapore and Singaporeans,” PSD said.