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  "title": "How to Set Compensation for Government Employees",
  "publication": "IMF How To Notes, April 4, 2024",
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  "summary": "Government compensation-setting should be informed by the monitoring of trends in recruitment and retention and benchmarking against the private sector.",
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      "heading": "Summary",
      "content": "- Government compensation-setting should be informed by the monitoring of trends in recruitment and retention and benchmarking against the private sector.\n- Unduly high compensation is an inefficient use of resources, while insufficient compensation can hinder efforts to recruit, retain, and motivate the workforce needed to deliver adequate public services.\n- Analyzing these factors at a granular level, for example, by occupation or position, can help to identify specific challenges."
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      "content": "- Recruitment and retention trends are central to effective compensation-setting.\n- Benchmarking against the private sector is necessary to evaluate the competitiveness of government compensation.\n- Both excessively high and insufficient compensation carry costs: inefficiency versus impaired service delivery capacity.\n- Granular analysis (by occupation or position) improves the ability to identify and address specific compensation challenges."
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      "content": "- Monitor trends in recruitment and retention systematically to inform compensation policy.\n- Use private-sector benchmarks to assess the adequacy and competitiveness of government pay and non-wage benefits.\n- Avoid unduly high compensation as it constitutes an inefficient use of scarce public resources.\n- Address insufficient compensation to prevent recruitment and retention shortfalls that undermine public service delivery.\n- Conduct granular, occupation- or position-level analysis to tailor compensation responses to specific challenges.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- How to Set Compensation for Government Employees\n  - How to Set Compensation for Government Employees (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - How to Set Compensation for Government Employees (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/imf-how-to-notes/issues/2024/04/04/how-to-set-compensation-for-government-employees-547046"
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    "Authors: Celine Thevenot, Sébastien Walker",
    "Published: April 4, 2024",
    "Series: IMF How To Notes",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400272653.061",
    "Government compensation-setting should be informed by the monitoring of trends in recruitment and retention and benchmarking against the private sector.",
    "Unduly high compensation is an inefficient use of resources, while insufficient compensation can hinder efforts to recruit, retain, and motivate the workforce needed to deliver adequate public services.",
    "Analyzing these factors at a granular level, for example, by occupation or position, can help to identify specific challenges.",
    "Recruitment and retention trends are central to effective compensation-setting.",
    "Benchmarking against the private sector is necessary to evaluate the competitiveness of government compensation.",
    "Both excessively high and insufficient compensation carry costs: inefficiency versus impaired service delivery capacity.",
    "Granular analysis (by occupation or position) improves the ability to identify and address specific compensation challenges.",
    "Monitor trends in recruitment and retention systematically to inform compensation policy.",
    "Use private-sector benchmarks to assess the adequacy and competitiveness of government pay and non-wage benefits.",
    "Avoid unduly high compensation as it constitutes an inefficient use of scarce public resources.",
    "Address insufficient compensation to prevent recruitment and retention shortfalls that undermine public service delivery.",
    "Conduct granular, occupation- or position-level analysis to tailor compensation responses to specific challenges.",
    "**How to Set Compensation for Government Employees**"
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