Developing a Pay Scale for Security Guards: 5-Point Factor Evaluation Approach

Abstract

The plight of private security workers in Nigeria has mostly been gruesome. These plights are mostly unguarded and unrecorded for them on many issues confronting their future, hence, the job looked indeterminate. The discrepancies often involve or occasioned in pay received by security operatives which has been extensively mentioned. Pay packages for security guards differ across borders, and these vary largely across the various levels of security operations. This trend has led to security employees seeking employment in other sectors of the economy which guarantees less risk and more financial incentive. In order to motivate security operatives for work, the present study tried to advocate a convenience goal at getting them to a structured salary scale position through the starting point of median pay. The result revealed that the calculated mean pay values for the five categories of security workers from the median pay levels and steps were possible and a flexible way to prepare the prototype and new pay scales. They presented values in five levels and steps, which equally correspond to individual aggregate point weight brackets deemed satisfactory. The flexibility is seen as good procedures for preparing the operatives’ salaries. The outcome is therefore crucial to psychosocial and economic development in Nigeria.