FOI/202400444854 · FOI · unclear
Scottish Government core employees pay scales: FOI release
Information requested
1. Of all Scottish Government employees, could you please provide the total number of employees that fall into each pay scale and the median salary in each pay scale grade. For example, A3, A4, B1 etc.
2. Whether the Scottish Government employees can be designated as ‘high performing’ or ‘high achieving’ in relation to these pay scales and if so how many and what percentage of employees have such status.
Response
Response to Question 1:
Please see table below detailing the total number of Scottish Government Core employees that fall into each pay scale and the median salary in each pay scale grade as at the 31st March 2024. Please note we have interpreted ‘employees’ as Scottish Government Core Employees on grades A3-C3, based on your request for grades A3, A4, B1, etc.
Grade Number of Employees Median Salary A3 314 £26,631 A4 393 £29,677 B1 1151 £32,571 B2 1795 £38,874 B3 2282 £50,855 BF 57 £40,678 C1 1822 £69,846 C2 796 £83,460 C3 104 £84,858
Response to Question 2:
Scottish Government staff receive annual performance assessments at the end of each performance year (1 April to 31 March) and are assigned a performance marking relating to their performance during the relevant performance year. Please note as we use the terms ‘highly effective’ and ‘exceptional’ in our ratings we have therefore interpreted ‘high performing’ to be ‘highly effective’ and ‘high achieving’ to be ‘exceptional’ to match the ratings we use. On that basis, please see the table below detailing the number and percentage of employees that have been designated as each of these performance markings in relation to the pay scales as at 31st July 2024. The performance marking information relates to the performance year 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.
Grade Number of employees with performance marking of ‘highly effective’ or ‘exceptional’ Total Number of Employees in the grade Percentage of employees in the grade with performance marking of ‘highly effective’ or ‘exceptional’ A3 88 314 28.03 A4 139 393 35.37 B1 469 1151 40.75 B2 845 1795 47.08 B3 1342 2282 58.81 BF 26 57 45.61 C1 1174 1822 64.43 C2 557 796 69.97 C3 71 104 68.27
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