Eleven articles ago we set out to answer a question a client had asked and we could not answer: what does the public sector pay for this skill, in this jurisdiction? This article is an account of what we found, what we got wrong, what we still cannot do, and precisely what it would take...
Barbados publishes a document listing every established post in its central government. We extracted it: 10,989 posts across 1,110 distinct job titles. One title — graduate teacher — accounts for a tenth of the entire establishment. Twenty titles account for forty-four per cent of it. And 493 titles, forty-four per cent of all of them,...
Trinidad and Tobago’s Budget Statement 2026 records that public service wage negotiations remain outstanding for two periods: 2014 to 2016, and 2017 to 2019. The Government has instructed the Chief Personnel Officer to submit a revised offer. A jurisdiction can therefore be impossible to compare not because its data is hidden, but because its pay...
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....
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...
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...
The lowest substantive grade in the Jamaican public service pays about US$6,200 a year. In Barbados the equivalent post pays about US$12,900. In the Cayman Islands it pays about US$43,200. Seven times the Jamaican figure, for work that is recognisably the same work — cleaning, portering, general duties — in three public services that share...
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,...
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...
IN BRIEF Parametric cover pays on a measured index rather than on an assessment of damage. That is what makes it fast, and it is also the source of every difficulty it creates. An earlier article in this series dealt with how much risk to retain, insure or leave unfunded. This one is about...
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