Salaries in the Civil Service

Abstract

AT the annual general meeting of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants held on April 30, the president, Sir Richard Redmayne, referred to the inadequacy of the remuneration of the highest posts in the specialist departments of the Civil Service. He directed attention to the recommendations made by the Royal Commission in 1931 that a salary of £2,500 should be paid to the Engineer-in-Chief in the Post Office, and that there should be “a certain number of posts carrying an inclusive salary of £2,000 a year”, and to the fact that these recommendations have not yet been carried into effect. He also pointed out that the Committee on the Staffs of Government Scientific Establishments in 1930 commented on the inadequacy of the prospects offered for the higher posts in the scientific establishments, and recommended that a small ad hoc committee should be appointed to consider these posts. In spite of this recommendation no action has been taken. Sir Richard claimed that the placing of the directing posts in the professional, scientific and technical departments on some degree of equality of status and remuneration with those obtaining on the nontechnical side of the Service would conduce to that greater efficiency of the Service, which it is the primary aim of the Institution to promote. Sir Richard referred to the recent vote in the House of Commons on the question of equal pay for equal work as between men and women. He stated that the Institution is an unqualified supporter of the principle of equality.