Open AccessReal Wages of the Federal Government Employees: Trends from 1977-78 to 1991-92
Author(s) -
Faiz Bilquees
Publication year - 1994
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/v33i3pp.229-251
Subject(s) - salary , exchequer , government (linguistics) , harm , labour economics , human resources , wages and salaries , government sector , quality (philosophy) , business , economics , economic growth , market economy , political science , private sector , management , law , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology , politics
This paper examines the trends in aggregate emoluments of theFederal Government Employees over the period 1977-78 to 1991-92. Levelsof salary and allowances are very important factors in attracting andretaining good-quality human resources in any sector of employment in aneconomy because they have a direct bearing on the motivation andperformance of the employees. In Pakistan, despite tbe fact thatgovernment is still the largest employer. the real wages of thegovernment servants have continuously declined over time; the top fivegrades are the worst-affected. Despite periodic revision of salaries,the successive pay commissions have failed to acknowledge some veryobvious anomalies in the basic pay and allowances structures. Theseanomalies not only harm the interests of the employees, their cost tothe national exchequer is also quite significant. The paper aims toprovide greater awareness of the weaknesses of the existing salarystructures so that they can be reformed. It makes strong recommendationson the revision of the existing patterns of renumeration, to theadvantage of both the employer and the employee.