Civil servants are often referred to as "sprout workers" and "iron rice bowls". Legislative Council documents show that as the population ages, more and more civil servants retire, and the annual pension expenditure is tens of billions, an increase of 99% in 8 years.
How many civil servants retire or leave each year?
How much do pension expenses cost?
Take a look one by one below.
In 2019-2020, 6,137 civil servants retired, accounting for 3.5% of all civil servants, an increase of 16% compared to 2013-2014.
According to a document of the Information Research Group of the Legislative Council Secretariat, most of the current civil servants who joined the government between June 1, 2000 and May 31, 2015 will reach retirement age between 2030 and 2040.
Expenses on pensions for civil servants nearly doubled in 8 years
In addition, the number of civil servants and judicial personnel receiving pensions has increased from 116,497 in 2014 to 145,510 in 2020, an increase of about 25%, and pension expenditure has increased from 22.993 billion yuan in 2013/14 to 2021/22 The year’s 45.8 billion yuan has nearly doubled, accounting for 8.8% of total government expenditure.
More than 46,000 civil servants choose to postpone their retirement
Faced with the increase in the number of civil servants retiring, the government proposed a plan to all qualified civil servants in July 2018 to allow them to choose to extend their retirement age from 60 to 65 (civilian grade) or from 55 to 60 (discipline) Force grade).
46,977 qualified civil servants chose to postpone their retirement, accounting for 83.5% of the overall qualified civil servants. Among them, the first standard salary scale civil servants chose to postpone retirement at 97.5%, and the higher-paid directorate staff only 52.4%.
In terms of the number of people, the police department chose to extend the retirement age the most, with 9,744 people, followed by the Fire Services Department; in terms of proportions, the Fire Services Department was the highest, followed by the Immigration Department.
In addition to delaying the retirement age, the government has also introduced a post-retirement service contract plan to allow heads of departments or grades to hire retired or about to retire civil servants. As of mid-2020, the government will employ 4,242 full-time post-retirement employees with a contract period of no more than 3 years. Service contract employees account for 23% of the total number of applications received. For
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