Open AccessA Note on Changes in Real Wages of Government Servants, 1959-60 to 1975-76
Author(s) -
M.L. Qureshi,
Faiz Bilquees
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v16i3pp.325-335
Subject(s) - salary , subsidy , government (linguistics) , wages and salaries , scale (ratio) , civil servants , economics , labour economics , real wages , wage , political science , politics , law , geography , market economy , linguistics , philosophy , cartography
An attempt has been made in this paper to estimate the changesthat have taken place in the real wages of government servants from1959-60 to 1975-76. In 1972, the government servants were classified in22 categories. For purposes of comparison, the various posts in 1959-60were grouped into cate¬gories which correspond to the 22 categories of1972. The wages include the basic salary at the minimum of the scale,plus allowances and other fringe benefits such as housing subsidy/houserent, dearness, conveyance and other allowances expressed in money termsat current prices in 1959-60, 1972 and 1975-76 as per details given inAppendix Tables I, II and III respectively.