Performance pay, or to use the technical term, “performance based in-range movement” (see definition below), is simply the increase in salary you may receive for demonstrating superior performance in your job. Your rating of superior performance would be documented in your annual MyPerformance review and signed off by your supervisor.
The information we collected from you in November 2018 on compensation showcased that many of you are confused and suspicious about how performance pay works in your ministry and across government. Overall, many of you are not sure how your ministry addresses superior performance through performance pay, or how you get increases to your salary. And many of you stated that there was no clear, transparent and standardized mechanism to appeal or inquire about ways to increase salaries for excluded employees.
As you know, our aim is to identify your concerns; encourage constructive dialogue with your employer to address those concerns; and report out on your collective voices. With this in mind, we are sharing some of our findings from the survey you filled out.
Despite the bad news, there is some good news! The BC Excluded Employees’ Association raised a series of issues with the BC government. Issues related to the long wage freeze starting in 2014 are being addressed and salaries are being adjusted for those long-term high-performing employees who are being compensated at a lower amount than employees in similar roles, in the same band, within a ministry.
For more information please read the full Communique located here.