Hello everyone,<br><br>I believe wage policy is in the center of focus for any non-profit organization regarding transparency issue. Because of the non-profit status, mass people, critics as well as the the governing authorities always tend to raise questions about how much the organization&#39;s staffs are paid. I am from Bangladesh where Many NGO&#39;s are operating in and this types of questions are often asked when any such issue arises.<br>
<br>So, transparency of wage structure/wage policy of a chapter is an issue that needs serious attention. Ensuring optimum transparency and at the same time, maintaining confidentiality of personal salary is a very delicate task. Having said that, I believe chapters may use a pay scale system that is widely used in my country (including the government as well as many NGOs). This pay scale system is quite similar to the salary grid proposed by Delphine. In pay scale, the jobs are divided into different levels with defined salary structure for respective job levels (which includes starting basic salary along with yearly increment &amp; maximum no. of years in each level and ratios of other benefits). I would like to present an example to explain the whole thing. Say we have 3 job levels in a an organization &amp; the pay scale may be presented as follows:<br>
<br>Level-1: 15000-900X4-18600  <br>Level-2: 13750-700X4-16550<br>Level-3: 11000-600X6-14600<br><br>Other benefits such as house rent, medical allowance may be defined as a % of the basic pay or as a fixed amount.<br><br>
If we explain level 3 pay scale, the starting salary of the level would be 11,000/- and yearly increment would be 600/-. This yearly increment would continue for the next 6 years if the recipient does not get a promotion with in this 6 year time frame. After 6 years, promotion of the employee would be due.<br>
<br>Lot many modifications can be done with this pay scale system. However, it can be a good choice to ensure transparency of salary and at the same time maintain some sort of confidentiality of individual salaries.<br><br>
Hope to see more such options as the discussion progresses.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Ali Haidar Khan (tonmoy)<br>Wikimedia Bangladesh <br><br>-- <br>Ali Haidar Khan (tOnmOy)<br>Wikimedia Bangladesh<br><br>