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.
Vinhua
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