Each salary point jump and the salary percentage you gain
You gain a small salary increment every year whenever your salary point jump each year. Whenever your salary point increase, we call it a salary point jump. The corresponding salary increase with salary point jump is not a fixed amount. The increment is a fixed percentage on everyone’s existing salary. Before we explain the increment, here are a few things you need to know about your salary levels on the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS). For instance, PSH16.1 or PSL16.1
PSH and PSL
Any worker on the Single Spine Salary Structure has the abbreviation PSH or PSL attached.
PS simply stands for Public Services (PS). However, the “H” stands for “High” while the “L” stands for “Low”. Therefore, “PSH” simply means “Public Services, High” while “PSL” means “Public Services, Low.”
For every sector of public service, High (H) applies to those considered as professionals or have done professional courses in their fields. And Low (L) applies to those considered as non-professionals or haven’t done professional courses in their fields.
Salary implications for H and L
The Single Spine Salary Structure rates professionals higher than non-professionals. This implies that professionals are assumed to have more professional knowledge of their fields and therefore expected to deliver more results than non-professionals. It is for this reason that the SSSS pays professionals higher than non-professionals who are at the same salary level or are at the same ranks.
H or L is therefore used to differentiate staff who are at the same rank but have different professional status (professional and non-professional).
Salary Point jump
The Single Spine Salary Structure has salary “points” attached to each level. For example, PSH16.1 or PHS16.2 or PSL16.4 or PSL16.5.
The last digits are what is referred to as salary “points.” So you could be on “point 1” or “point 2” or “point 4” or “point 5”
The salary points end at the maximum year when you are required to be promoted to the next rank on the scheme of work and therefore get a corresponding increase in salary levels altogether.
Junior staff in the various professions have their points limited at “point 5”, while staff on the senior staff or senior ranks have their points limited at “point 6.”
It is expected that you will be promoted to the next level by the time you exhaust your maximum points available.
Percentage salary increase for each salary point jump
There is a small salary adjustment for staff whenever there is an increase in your salary points. The salary increment is 1.7%.
This percentage increment is called the salary relativity ratio. Relativity is simply the relationship between two staff members who were employed in two different years. It is assumed that anyone employed first would definitely gain some experience and therefore be able to deliver more than those employed later.
The constant salary difference between two years is 1.7%. The one-year gap is 1.7%. The two-year gap is 1.7% X 2 = 3.4%. The three-year gap is 1.7% X 3 = 5.1%. Four-year gap is 1.7% X 4 = 6.8%. Five-year gap is 1.7% X 5 = 8.5%. Six-year gap is 1.7% X 6 = 10.2%.
The 1.7% relativity ratio is informally known as salute differential.
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