Ho Chi Minh City increases income for officials in early April

This morning, at the 7th session - the extraordinary session of the 9th term Ho Chi Minh City People's Council, delegates approved the People's Committee's report on the "Pilot project on additional income payment for cadres, civil servants, and public employees of state management departments, political organizations, socio-political organizations, and public service units managed by the City".

Specifically, from April 1, officials, civil servants and public employees in Ho Chi Minh City will have their income increased.

The roadmap is to increase by a maximum of 0.6 times in 2018, a maximum of 1.2 times in 2019, and a maximum of 1.8 times in 2020 compared to salaries according to grade, level, and position.

The condition for income increase is based on work efficiency. Only civil servants who are assessed as having completed their tasks well or better will be considered for an income increase.

Currently in Ho Chi Minh City there are more than 11,600 civil servants, nearly 122,160 public employees and 6,440 non-professional commune - ward - town officials.

To increase revenue in 2018, Ho Chi Minh City needs more than 2,340 billion VND.

At the meeting, delegates also unanimously approved the City People's Committee's proposal on a policy to attract talents, experts, scientists, and young creative workers to work in departments, branches, and high-tech zones.

In particular, Ho Chi Minh City plans to spend billions of dong to recruit domestic and foreign talents to work in key industries such as mechanics, electronics - information technology, pharmaceuticals - rubber, processing and clean industries, energy saving, supporting industries, finance and banking, transportation, import and export, tourism, education, healthcare...

Selected experts will receive an initial subsidy of VND80-100 million.

In addition, those who carry out projects, initiatives, and initiatives are entitled to an incentive allowance equal to 1% of the total city budget spent on that project. The total support level is not less than 50 million VND/person/research project. The maximum bonus can be up to 1 billion VND/person/research project.