Pay and rewards
A key part of the role of the Cabinet Office is ensuring that public services pay is affordable, efficient and effective. Each year government and public service employers spend £130 billion on public service pay and pensions and a further substantial amount on other forms of employee investment such as training and development.
Government and employers are responsible for ensuring that this money is spent:
- Effectively - wherever possible the money spent should have the greatest possible impact on the service received by the user of public services.
- Efficiently - money should not be spent where it reaps no benefits therefore assumptions about what employees value should be avoided.
In order to achieve this dual goal:
- the rewards package must be clearly linked to the overall aims of the organisation - improving service delivery and increased workforce diversity and flexibility; and
- all rewards should be viewed as part of one, coherent, package and a change to one element must be understood in the context of the impact that it will have on other elements.
More information
