Salary guide for officials in the livestock and veterinary sector

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Home Affairs have just issued a joint Circular stipulating codes and professional title standards for officials specializing in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine.

The Circular clearly stipulates the codes and classification of professional titles of officials specializing in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine. Specifically, the titles of animal disease diagnosis include: a) Animal disease diagnostician grade II - Code: V.03.04.10; b) Animal disease diagnostician grade III - Code: V.03.04.11; c) Animal disease diagnostic technician grade IV - Code: V.03.04.12.

Illustration photo.

Veterinary hygiene inspection positions include: a) Veterinary hygiene inspector grade II - Code: V.03.05.13; b) Veterinary hygiene inspector grade III - Code: V.03.05.14; c) Veterinary hygiene inspection technician grade IV - Code: V.03.05.15

Veterinary drug testing positions include: a) Veterinary drug tablet tester grade II - Code: V.03.06.16; b) Veterinary drug tablet tester grade III - Code: V.03.06.17; c) Veterinary drug testing technician grade IV - Code: V.03.06.18

Titles of livestock testing, including: a) Grade II livestock testing officer - Code: V.03.07.19;

b) Grade III livestock inspector - Code: V.03.07.20; c) Grade IV livestock inspector - Code: V.03.07.21

Salary arrangement

The professional titles in the animal husbandry and veterinary fields are subject to the Professional and Technical Salary Table for cadres and civil servants in State-owned enterprises (Table 3) issued together with Decree No. 204/2004/ND-CP of the Government on salary regime for cadres, civil servants, public employees and armed forces.

Specifically, the professional titles of animal disease diagnostician grade II, veterinary drug tester grade II, veterinary hygiene inspector grade II, livestock inspector grade II are applied with the salary coefficient of civil servants type A2, group A2.2 (from salary coefficient 4.00 to salary coefficient 6.38).

Veterinary staff of Hung Nguyen district vaccinate cows against septicemia (Illustration photo).

The professional titles of animal disease diagnostician grade III, veterinary drug tester grade III, veterinary hygiene inspector grade III, and livestock tester grade III are subject to the salary coefficient of type A1 civil servants (from salary coefficient 2.34 to salary coefficient 4.98).

The professional titles of animal disease diagnostic technician grade IV, veterinary drug testing technician grade IV, veterinary hygiene testing technician grade IV, and livestock testing technician grade IV are subject to the salary coefficient of type B civil servants (from salary coefficient 1.86 to salary coefficient 4.06).

The promotion of professional titles for officials specializing in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine is carried out after being appointed by competent authorities to professional titles for officials specializing in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine as prescribed in this Joint Circular and salary arrangement is carried out according to the instructions in Clause 1, Section II of Circular No. 02/2007/TT-BNV of the Ministry of Home Affairs guiding salary arrangement when promoting, transferring ranks, and changing types of civil servants and public employees.

This Joint Circular takes effect from December 5, 2015.

According to Chinhphu.vn