Salary unification cut northern civil servants’ top pay and was a mixed blessing

Evidence

From the point of view of northern civil servants, although absolutely necessary, this was a mixed blessing; for, while it raised the salary scales for the lower grades of employee, the top salaries of senior officials were decreased to a point roughly midway between the two extremes of north and south. (Prior to this, District Commissioners in the north on the old British rates received salaries considerably higher than those of Provincial Commissioners in the south and twice as much as southern D.C.s.) Later in 1962 new fiscal and accounting procedures on the (British) northern pattern were adopted throughout the Republic. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 441

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the pattern of administrative unification carrying hidden costs — echoes earlier chapters on union structures.