The Federal Government has begun payment of the N70,000 minimum wage salary and its consequential adjustments to public servants across all levels of the federal civil service.
A report by The Punch on Friday said over 1.2 million civil servants on the payroll of the Federal Government will be paid the newly approved minimum wage in September.
The report said a warrant for this month’s salary signed by the Accountant-General of the Federation, Dr Oluwatoyin Madein, and addressed to the Budget Office of the Federation directed the commencement of the new payment.
According to the warrant, which contained a breakdown of all workers across various Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Armed Forces, Paramilitary, Federal Universities, Polytechnics, and Colleges of Education, a total of 1,236,824 workers are included.
The National Income, Salaries and Wages Commission revealed that civil servants under the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure would earn per cadre. The new salary bill was calculated per annum.
A breakdown showed that level one officers would now earn N930,000 per annum, and level two N934,160. The salary figure increased to N937,713 for level three officers while grade level four officers now earn N950,243.
Grade Level five officers will earn N973,123, level six N1,041,786 per annum and level seven (N1,277,667), the newspaper revealed.
Also, grade eight public servants will now earn N1,479,276, level nine officers will get N1,641,226 per annum and level 10 will earn N1,806,041, the report said.
For senior level officers, the document showed that Grade level 12 officers will now earn N2,007,152 per annum following the approval of the consequential adjustments.
On the other hand, grade level 13 officials get N2,182,637, level 15 officials will get N2,358,936, and public servants on level 16 will receive N3,611,689 per annum.
Grade Level 17 officers, a position reserved for permanent secretary and the highest office in the civil service, will now earn N6,918,560.
The Director of Press, OAGF, Bawa Mokwa, in an interview, said, “The new minimum wage payment will begin from today (Thursday) for this month.
“You can ask civil servants when they start getting alerts. You can confirm that. There is nothing on arrears payment yet. I don’t know anything about that. But payment is starting this month,” he said.
