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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...



