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Payroll is where accounting meets employment law.

September 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Payroll is the only monthly process that is at once a tax filing, the performance of a contract and a statutory record. Treating it as data entry is how a business acquires liabilities it does not know it has. IN SHORT Payroll sits on top of two bodies of law that do not refer to...

Compensation and Benefits Healthcare Workforce HR Consulting HR outsourcing in the Caribbean Human Capital & Workforce Strategy Human Capital and Employee Benefits Human Resources Human Resources & Workforce Advisory Workforce Strategy

The Separate Ladders: How Public Services Pay Nurses and Police Differently from Everybody Else

August 23, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Jamaica’s public service runs three separate pay ladders. The core civil service has thirteen incremental points to a band; the disciplined services have nine; the health families have eight. All three are built from the same 2.5 per cent increment. And within that one service, the allowance paid to nurses holds constant at around 16...

Compensation and Benefits Human Resources & Workforce Advisory Public Sector & Government Workforce Strategy

Total Reward: What Sits Outside Basic Pay, and Why We Changed Our Method

August 22, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Across the Cayman Islands civil service, total remuneration is 1.29 times salary. For its senior management the figure is 1.36. And of the reward that sits outside pay, employer health care costs four and a half times what the pension promise does — 18.6 per cent of total remuneration against 4.0 per cent. That inverts...

HR Advisory Services HR Consulting Human Capital & Workforce Strategy Human Capital and Employee Benefits Human Resources & Workforce Advisory Public Sector & Government Workforce Strategy

The Architecture of Public Pay: How Two Caribbean Services Built the Same Salary Band

August 21, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Two Caribbean public services, a thousand miles apart, with no shared pay policy and no common consultant, have built the same salary band. Not a similar one. Thirteen incremental points, a step of two and a half per cent, and a spread of 1.3449 — identical to five decimal places. A third jurisdiction, Barbados,...

Economic Policy Human Resources & Workforce Advisory Public Sector & Government Research and Analysis

Public Sector Pay in the Caribbean: Why It Cannot Currently Be Compared

August 21, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A widely used international salary website reports that the highest-paid civil servant in Barbados earns about BBD 19,060 a year. The lowest substantive grade in the Barbados public service — the cleaner, the general worker, the maid — is paid BBD 25,891. The site’s ceiling sits twenty-six per cent below the real floor. This is...

Human Resources & Workforce Advisory

Payroll is where accounting meets employment law.

The Separate Ladders: How Public Services Pay Nurses and Police Differently from Everybody Else

Total Reward: What Sits Outside Basic Pay, and Why We Changed Our Method

The Architecture of Public Pay: How Two Caribbean Services Built the Same Salary Band

Public Sector Pay in the Caribbean: Why It Cannot Currently Be Compared

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