Senior civil service pay: A study of eleven OECD countries, 1980-1991 (Public management occasional papers)

Documents and analyzes senior civil service pay levels and trends over time in eleven OECD countries between 1980 and 1991, with additional information on policy developments since 1991. It examines pay for the top three levels of the senior civil service in Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Issues explored in the report include differences in pay levels and pay structures changes in the purchasing power of top level civil servants over time changes in the differentials between the pay of senior civil servants and that of staff at lower grades comparisons with movements in private sector salaries, economic growth and per capita GDP and institutional methods of setting pay for senior civil servants and how these are changing.