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PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT OF CIVIL SERVANTS IN THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

HOVHANNES HARUTYUNYANTEREZA KHECHOYAN

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ACADEMY OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

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CIVIL SERVANTS’ POSITIONS:

4 groups (11 subgroups)

Junior Positions

Leading Positions

Chief Positions

Highest Positions

Each subgroup has its own remuneration scale .

The scale of each subgroup has 11 salary levels or 11 rates of basic salary.

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SUPPLEMENTARY PAYMENT:

surplus for the work under special conditions ,

supplementary compensation for holding a rank higher than the relevant rank of the position subgroup ,

lump-sum annual bonuses payable on the basis of performance measurement ,

bonuses awarded for duly performance of special assignments

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SALARY SURPLUSES:

for cases of especially harmful and hard work: 24 percent of rank rate ,

for the work under harmful for health conditions: 12 percent of the rank rate .

for geographical conditions (work in high mountainous areas): 20 percent of rank ratebut not more than 8-fold monthly minimum salary set in the

Republic of Armenia.

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The Law on Remuneration of Civil Servants is also applied in the Chamber of Control, for the staff of the National Assembly

(Parliament) and Judicial Department .

Since January 1, 2008 the basic salary of civil servants, judicial servants, and public servants of the National Assembly is set to equal

AMD 40,000 .

The basic rank rate for civil servants has been doubled since 2003; it still remains lower than the basic salary of other types of public

service (tax and customs services) .

The basic salary of civil servants employed in the Chamber of Control is set to equal AMD 111,000 (the two-fold of the average basic salary of tax and customs servants)

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AVERAGE SALARIES OF CIVIL SERVANTS IN ARMENIA, 2008(INCLUDING SUPPLEMENTARY SALARIES, SUPPLEMENTARY

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Highest positions 204842 229297 216382 299481 279217 217861

Chief positions 142230 159184 143063 211915 153359 138890

Leading positions 92501 105263 96676 125275 108604 91316

Junior positions 59428 75144 66881 61725 70825 62471

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MINIMUM, MAXIMUM AND AVERAGE RANK RATES OF CIVIL SERVANTS IN ARMENIA, 2006-2008

Rank rates 2006 2007 2008 2008

compared to 2007

Minimum 30000 35500 40000 12.7%

Average 78800 84017 99115 18.0%

Maximum 495000 495000 495000 0.0%

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DISTRIBUTION OF BONUSES PER POSITIONS HELD

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Highestpositions

Chiefpositions

Leadingpositions

Juniorpositions

Civil Servants Total

Annual Performance Results

Qualified Performance of Special Assignments

Other Monetary Bonuses

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COMPARISON OF AVERAGE SALARIES OF PERSONS OF PREVAILING SPECIALTIES IN CIVIL SERVICE AND NON-PUBLIC SECTOR

Specialties Civil

service

Non-public sector

Ratio, %

Economics and management 124934 198775 159

Energy and electric equipments

125774 207690 165

Metal working and processing of materials

114588 203126 177

Education and pedagogy 104693 174432 152

Agro-food sector 110558 164614 149

Information and computing technology

116825 162639 140

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CONCLUSION

unjustified difference between the highest, medium and lowest levels of civil servants’ remuneration,

the fact of ignoring at a certain extent the level of responsibilities of a civil servant and the level of complexity of his/her work,

lack of criteria for performance measurement ,

lower level of remuneration compared to private sector entities ,

Lack of due consideration of inflation factor when forming the amount of salary.

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RECOMMENDATIONS

increase in the salary of civil servants, contributing to the attraction of qualified specialists in the civil service system of Armenia and enhancement

of competitiveness of civil servants’ remuneration ,

improvement of the scale serving as a basis for defining the basic salary of civil servants,

improvement of the system of bonus payment to civil servants ,

introduction of a system of civil servants’ performance measurement,

when defining the salary amount, duly consideration of the inflation factor.

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