CDC - CBP Results of the Interviews

4.5.2 RESULTS OF THE INTERVIEWS

123. During personal interviews with donor representatives some additional information on the remuneration of national personnel was made available to the study team. According to this information, the UN community applies a common scale for local appointments of limited duration (ALD) and for service contracts for the country offices and projects. Some bilateral donors apply the UN scale or a modification thereof. For loan financed programs, the Ministry of Finance and Economy has no approved scale but there is a practice which is generally followed. The NGOs do not have a common agreed scale.

124. The levels of salaries paid to Cambodian project staff was examined in a recent salary surveys. The CCC did one in 2002, which concerns salaries paid by INGO’s and Cambodian NGO’s. The Australian Embassy has done another, early in 2003, as part of an effort to determine appropriate salaries for Cambodian staff employed by Ausaid. It may be useful to compare the findings of these two surveys with information presented in this report.

125. The Australian salary survey drew the following conclusions:

The UN community was paying in the upper quartile of salaries surveyed in all positions.
For most positions, the private sector was paying less than other employers, in the lowest quartile of the market.
For managerial positions, the private sector was in the mid-range.
There was reasonable comparability among donors, although for higher-level positions, USAID tended to pay in the upper quartile of salaries.
The NGOs were highly variable. Larger organizations were closely aligned with donors.

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