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The Floor: What Caribbean Public Services Pay at Entry Level
August 22, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown
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...
