The new appointments for permanent secretary positions include highly qualified and experienced expatriates. Together with the local appointees they would earn the very high salary levels that were reviewed by Government recently.

The very substantial difference between these salary levels as against those in the next level down lacks logic.

If the basis of these very high salaries was to attract highly qualified and experienced executives, there would still be a need to review the whole civil service pay structure to reflect relativity.

It appears that the authority which approved these unusually high salary levels have not heard of the word “relativity”.