Public Sector & Government

Paying for the Qualification: What Happens When Reward Attaches to the Person Rather Than the Post

A Guyanese public servant holding an ACCA qualification is paid an additional G$15,000 a month. A master’s degree attracts G$22,000; a doctorate G$32,000. The payment attaches to the person, not to the post — two officers doing identical work on the same grade may be paid differently according to what they have qualified in....

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Where the Data Is: What Caribbean Governments Publish About Pay, and What They Do Not

August 22, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Of the five Caribbean jurisdictions we have examined in detail, exactly one publishes a schedule mapping established posts to salary scales. Jamaica’s Estimates of Expenditure for 2026/27 run to 716 pages and contain no salary scale codes anywhere. The source that turned out to be genuinely universal was one we had not expected to rely...

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...

Compensation and Benefits Public Sector & Government Workforce Strategy

The Shape of a Public Service: What the Distance Between Top and Bottom Tells You.

August 22, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In Jamaica the top of the career public service pays 23.6 times what the bottom pays. In the Cayman Islands the figure is 7.0. In Barbados it is 6.4. Three public services in one region, inheriting the same administrative tradition, built to shapes so different that they can barely be described as the same kind...

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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,...

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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...

Public Sector & Government

Paying for the Qualification: What Happens When Reward Attaches to the Person Rather Than the Post

Where the Data Is: What Caribbean Governments Publish About Pay, and What They Do Not

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

The Shape of a Public Service: What the Distance Between Top and Bottom Tells You.

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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