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Bill on pay hike for Macau public servants under Legislature discussion
4/2/2005 15:17

The top advisory body of Macau's Chief Executive has assessed a government bill to increase public servants' salaries and pensions by five percent, and sent it for discussions at the Legislative Assembly.
Friday's Macau Post reported that if approved, the pay hike for public servants would be the first in seven years.
The newspaper's source said that the salary increase, which was planned to become retroactively effective as of Jan. 1, would cost some 290 million patacas (US$36.25 million) from the Treasury this year.
Macau has about 18,000 public servants, whose monthly salaries include a wide range of benefits, amounted to more than double of those paid by the private sector.
If approved, the chief executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) Edmund Ho Hau Wah's monthly salary would increase to 136,227 patacas (US$17,028) from the present sum of 129,740 patacas (US$16,217).
The salaries of all legislators and judicial staff are linked to those of public servants.
Macau Civil Servants Association President Jose Pereira Coutinho said that the pay hike would be positive and a good start to boost the public morale amid a sound economic growth.

 

 



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