COMMITTEE FOR FINANCE AND PERSONNEL
COMMITTEE MOTIONS
Senior Civil Service Pay and Bonuses
Information from DFP on Pay Bands 1 and 2
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Mr Shane McAteer
Clerk
Committee for Finance and Personnel
Room 419
Parliament Buildings
Stormont
8 April 2009
Dear Shane
SENIOR CIVIL SERVICE PAY AND BONUSES
The Committee recently requested information relating to the value of the three components (pay band salary, bonus and pension) offered at Pay Bands 1 and 2 in the Northern Ireland Civil Service. This information is attached at Annex A.
Yours sincerely,
NORMAN IRWIN
ANNEX A
Pay Band Salaries
With effect from 1 April 2008, pay band 1 and 2 salary bands are –
Pay Band 1 - £57,300 - £116,000
Pay Band 2 - £81,600 - £160,000
To put the pay ranges into context, the median salaries for each pay band paid to members of the NICS Senior Civil Service in 2008 were –
Pay Band 1 - £61,153
Pay Band 2 - £86,971
Bonus Levels
As part of the 2008 SCS pay award, staff in pay bands 1 and 2 who were awarded a non-consolidated non-pensionable bonus payment were paid one of three bonus levels –
Level 1 - £10,500
Level 2 - £7,750
Level 3 - £5,000
Pension
Pension accrued throughout a career is very personal to the individual and therefore hard to quantify in terms of the amount payable to a group of individuals. To address this, Civil Service Pensions have provided illustrations setting out the pension payable on the median points of paybands 1 and 2 if the member were to leave with, variously, 5, 20 and 40 years’ service. For illustrative purposes, it is assumed the members are all in the Classic pension scheme (the original scheme).
Payband 1 – Median Salary - £61,153
Pension entitlement after 5, 20 and 40 years’ service -
(5 x £61,153) / 80 = £3,822.06 pension and £11,466.18 lump sum
(20 x £61,153) / 80 = £15,288.25 pension and £45,864.75 lump sum
(40 x £61,153) / 80 = £30,576.50 pension and £91,729.50 lump sum
Payband 2 - Median salary - £86,971
Pension entitlement after 5, 20 and 40 years’ service –
(5 x £86,971) / 80 = £5,435.69 pension and £16,307.07 lump sum
(20 x £86,971) / 80 = £21,742.75 pension and £65,228.25 lump sum
(40 x £86,971) / 80 = £43,485.50 pension and £130,456.50 lump sum