25-05-2011, 11:05 AM
(25-05-2011, 10:17 AM)iisterry Wrote: If there are to be any meaningful revision in the salary of the ministers, the Administrative Service might be affected as well.
The annual remuneration of the permanent secretary is roughly 600-800k. On top of him seats the various politicians, parliamentary secretary, senior parl sect, minister of state, senior minister of state, minister, depute PM, prime minister.
I sure hope so. If there was one sore point I had about the current government prior to the GE and the pending revisions, it is that they were paid too well (regardless of the issue of whether they're doing a good job or not). The whole idea of linking pay to performance is one that is grossly over-simplified.
Then you have the fact that they (in a roundabout way) decide their own pay which spells lack of corporate governance.
And the slap in face is, Lim Swee Say telling everyone else to be 'Cheaper, Better, Faster'. Hopefully, the revisions will reflect public service pay more accurately.
' Wrote:The original pension scheme was designed as a safety net for the various public figures who sacrificed their time for the state (they were not as highly remunerated then). Now that their pay package has been pegged to the highest professions in society, the scheme is obsolete and will be addressed.
And this is why I prefer small government. No matter how smart the people we have (and from my personal experience, there are some really smart people in the civil service), the structure of the machine is set up to be reactive rather than pro-active. Behind the 8-ball so to speak.