The results of the "Salary Trend Survey", which affects civil service pay adjustments, were released last week. After deducting the cost of incremental salary increases, the net pay trend indicators were 7.26% for senior civil servants, 4.55% for middle-level employees, and 2.04% for low-level employees.
Li Kuiyan, president of the Chinese Association, later told the media that the survey results did not reflect the actual situation, and could only cover individual private organizations that were less affected by the epidemic or even benefited from the epidemic, and believed that salaries should be adjusted according to inflation.
You Jianzhong, Secretary-General of the Joint Secretariat of the Advisory Committee on Salary and Conditions of Service of Public and Judicial Officers (Salary Advisory Committee), who is in charge of the investigation, wrote to Li Kuiyan today (23rd) that his remarks were untrue and unfair. .
Refers to the survey covering industries affected by the epidemic
You Jianzhong said that the Chinese Staff Association has repeatedly raised the fact that the epidemic has made the salary trend survey lose its reference value, and asked to suspend the survey. "Even though the government has explained the operation of the salary trend survey many times in the past, it is clear that the survey is based on the private sector. The secretariat deeply regrets that after the investigation committee received the report, you (Li Kuiyan) still publicly made unsubstantiated comments on the methodology and preliminary findings of the 2022 salary trend survey.”
The letter pointed out that the distribution of companies invited to participate in the survey by economic industry is generally consistent with the overall distribution of the population engaged in economic activities in Hong Kong. Among them, there are many who have been significantly affected by the epidemic. affected by the epidemic did not participate in the survey, which does not mean that only private institutions that were less affected by the epidemic or benefited from the epidemic participated, or that the coverage of the survey was not representative enough.
You Jianzhong believes that the survey results can reflect the actual situation in the year from April 2 last year to April 1 this year, and pointed out that because the purpose of the salary trend survey is to measure the average salary change between full-time employees in the private sector, so " "Can't and shouldn't be expected." This year's survey uses the post-fifth wave of the outbreak as a proxy for the full year.
The results of a survey of pay trends influencing civil service pay increases were released last week.
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You Jianzhong also pointed out that Li Kuiyan has been participating in the work of the investigation committee many years ago, and she must understand that the salary trend survey is only a measure of the average salary adjustment rate of the private sector between years, and will not be used to measure the gross domestic product, unemployment rate, etc. The survey's credibility lies in its ability to faithfully reflect changes in the average annual compensation of full-time employees in the private sector, and "the reliability of the survey should not be questioned because it cannot handle data beyond the purpose of the survey."
He hoped that all stakeholders could fairly evaluate the survey's methods and results.
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