Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) chaiperson Sarah Serem address the press alongside other officials, July 10, 2017. [Photo| @citizentvkenya]
The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has laid down a new salary structure with aims to tame the ballooning public wage bill.
SRC chairperson Saraha
Serem has indicated the proposed plan will see allowances of state officers, affected, including the president and his deputy.
She said the structure which takes effect starting September this year to 2022, will save Kenya over 8 billion shillings annualy, by slashing the public wage bill by 35 per cent.Members of Parliament will also miss plenary sessions' sitting allowances, while Parliament Majority and Minority Leaders and committee chairmen, will lose special responsibility allowances.According to Serem, the country is striving to be a producing country as opposed to being a consuming one, hence the scrapping of mileage and special responsibility allowances from state officers.Addressing the press, Monday, she revealed that some officers were earning up to Sh2 million mileage allowance, adding that the new structure will compile this, and see state officers get a one-month allowance.The president will now earn Sh1.4 million from Sh1.65 million; deputy president Sh1.2 million from Sh1. 4 million; Cabinet Secretaries Sh924,000 from Sh1.056 million; principal secretaries Sh765,000 from Sh874,000; and governors Sh924,000 from Sh1.056 million.Members of Parliament will get Sh621,000 from Sh710,000, Speaker Sh1.155 million from Sh1.30 million; Deputy Speaker Sh924,000 from Sh1.006 million; Majority and Minority Leaders Sh765,000 from Sh1.020 million; MCAs: Sh144,000 from Sh165,000 and CeCs Sh259, 875 from Sh350,000.