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...
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...
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...
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...
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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Dawgen Global is an integrated multidisciplinary professional service firm in the Caribbean Region. We are integrated as one Regional firm and provide several professional services including: audit,accounting ,tax,IT,Risk, HR,Performance, M&A,corporate recovery and other advisory services
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