Medvedev: Salaries of officials should be quickly transferred to the market

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during the discussion of the draft civil service reform prepared by experts of the "open government", agreed to the principle of "pay by market" in relation to the salaries of officials and noted that it is necessary to switch to it faster.
The package of initiatives on civil service reform includes proposals for a new system of motivating officials, the essence of which the speakers reduced to the principle of "paying by market." Experts explained that the gap between the salaries of managers in the civil service and in the private sector should not exceed 15%, otherwise a "negative selection" is obtained. At the suggestion of experts, large managers - from the level of the deputy head of the department to the minister should receive 2-15 million rubles a year.
“I agree with the general ideology - to pay according to the market. But this needs to be explained, explain to our people why the official needs to pay according to the market,” Medvedev said.
"To do this (pay" by market ") is necessary and needs to be done quickly enough, because otherwise our public service system will degrade," the president said.
He said that now the average salary in the apparatus of the government and the presidential administration is about 100 thousand rubles. "But at the same time, at the municipal level, it is in some cases prohibitively, critically small. In some departments, it is very small, moreover, the responsibility that lies with these decision-makers is very, very serious," Medvedev said.
Medvedev noted that participants in the meeting also mentioned such things as the official’s class or qualification level.
"They give nothing to the official ... Now this does not affect the motivation of the (official)," Medvedev said.
"Previously, the transformation from a college assessor into a titular adviser significantly affected wages ... the appeal was already different," the president said. In his opinion, the system of classes or ranks must either be changed or canceled altogether if it does not work. “But it’s better to change,” he said.
Medvedev also supported the idea of a system of bonuses, rewards, promotions as a motivation for officials. At the same time, he called not to forget that "a detachment of civil servants are people who are subject to the presumption of innocence and who demand respect for themselves." In his opinion, when creating a new incentive system, one should not forget that civil servants are citizens of the country and "should be under the maximum respect" from society and the state, RIA Novosti reports.

 

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Thanks, interesting stuff.