Using an ancient Terran model, the Inter Planetary Alliance adopted a civilian employee pay schedule based on skill sets and time in service; Much like the militry, there are two distinctive schedules, one for those with strictly technical skills (or lack thereof), and the other for those with university degrees (minimum of a Bachelors).Generally, the individual is paid Rate plus (half number of years of service%), for example a SG-8 (Superintendent 1) with 15 years of service would make 169,844 per month. To promote from Technical Grades (TG) to Supervisory Grade (SG) requires at least 4 years of service in the TG system and possession of a degree (at least a Bachelor's Of The Art); It doesn't matter if you have the degree before you enter the system or obtain it while in the system. The system thus emulates the militry requirement to serve in the enlisted ranks for a period, then to attend OCS.This system was an attempt to shoehorn three systems around each other with the least amount to change to the largest single system (the militry) so that anyone could look at the other systems and instantly 'read' other members to determine who stood where in the pecking order, a vital necessity when various agency have to cooperate (such as natural disasters and evacuations). |