Zamfara State is one of the states that made up northern Nigeria. The state is viable and efficient, blessed with solid minerals like gold, but has greater percentage of low income earners. Zamfara state operates a uniform Civil Service Salaries Structures under the harmonized salary structure.
Zamfara State is majorly a civil servant state. Like most other Civil Servant States in the country, job finders in the state, especially graduates look up to getting government jobs. The craze for government jobs is not because the workers are best paid, but for security of jobs, gratuity, guaranteed retirement, otherwise known as severance package and other benefits civil servants enjoy.
Zamfara State Civil Service Commission has thousands of workers on her pay roll. Getting a government job whether state or federal is a difficult need, as it requires ‘who know man’ in most cases to get it.
The State is predominantly a civil servant state with a relatively high Salary Scale and Structure with prices of items fairly low. Zamfara State Civil Service Commission is one of the states that generate substantial internally generated revenue (IGR) in the country, in addition to federal allocation.
Zamfara state has also done well for its prompt payment of salaries to her numerous workers and job security is guaranteed. The state is also blessed with a strong workforce, made up of highly motivated, disciplined, and productive workers that have done so much to make Zamfara state a viable and efficient state.
In this post, we shall bring you the current information about Zamfara State Civil Service Commission salary scale and structure especially graduates who constitute greater number of job seekers in the state and indeed the country and give them a clue to what they should expect as monthly salaries if lucky enough to be employed as Zamfara State Civil Servants.
What makes Zamfara State Civil Service Commission?
Job seekers in the state and indeed Nigeria will see the information provided here very useful and educative.
Zamfara State Civil Service Commission, like other states civil service commission in the Nigeria, is an executive agency of the state charged with the responsibility of employing civil servants, designate their various functions as well as ensuring that strict discipline are maintained in the service.
It also has the function of welfare, promotion, transfer and exercise overall control in all State civil servants in Zamfara State.
However, from the guide below, you will understand the entire system, especially, the monthly salary you are to expect if employed.
We should note that all civil servants in Zamfara State and other states civil service in the country are under the control of the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the State, except the Chairman and Commissioners.
Responsibilities and Duties of Zamfara State Civil Service Commission
The Zamfara State Civil Service Commission has various duties and responsibilities, which are:
- To recruit senior officers
- Provide guidelines on promotions, discipline, and appointments;
- Represent the Civil Service Commissioners at Senior Staff Committee meetings of ministries;
- Review and approve the recommendations on disciplinary cases of senior officers;
- Ratify the promotion of officers to senior positions, including conducting promotion interviews and examinations.
Zamfara State Salary Structure 2023 (Grade Level Breakdown)
Zamfara state Civil Service Commission, like other states civil service in Nigeria, currently operates the Harmonized Public Service Salary Structure (HAPSS), since it came into operation on March 1, 2007.
Below is a tabulation of the salary grade levels and the corresponding monthly salaries of Zamfara State Civil Service:
| Grade level | Salary range (N) |
| 01 | 19,500 – 27,000 |
| 02 | 21,000 – 29,500 |
| 03 | 22,000 – 32,000 |
| 04 | 22,500 – 35,000 |
| 05 | 25,000 – 41,000 |
| 06 | 31,000 – 49,500 |
| 07 | 41,500 – 64,000 |
| 08 | 54,000 – 80,000 |
| 09 | 63,500 – 96,000 |
| 10 | 73,000 – 111,500 |
| 12 | 87,500 – 127,000 |
| 13 | 98,000 – 138,500 |
| 14 | 107,500 – 153,000 |
| 15 | 120,000 – 167,500 |
| 16 | 132,000 – 190,000 |
| 17 | 147,500 – 213,500 |
It is important to note also that as obtainable in other states, tax payment and other deductions by the Zamfara State Government do not make most civil servants in the State receive the officially assigned salary figures for their respective positions.
From the table above, it is obvious that the minimum salary that can be earned by a civil servant at grade level one (lowest grade) in Zamfara State is N19,500, while the highest is N213,500.
The demand for increase in salaries by workers of Zamfara state civil service is a welcome development. The recent announcement of palliatives for states workers as a result of subsidy removal has not made significant impact on the civil servants in the state.
Ideally speaking, a civil servant in Zamfara State, like other states civil service in the country, spends a minimum of 3 years on each grade level, after which he or she gets promoted to the next step within the same grade level. This makes a servant entitled to a slight increase in salary and keeps employees motivated.
The information provided here therefore gives you an insight about rough estimates of what a civil servant in Zamfara State earns monthly by adding the basic salary to the allowances that apply to the person’s grade level.
In summary, it is important to note that in achieving increase in salary of Zamfara State civil servants, promotional examinations, long years of excellent service and high academic excellence are the needed criteria for elevation in the State civil service.
Approval and implementation of minimum wage for Zamfara State Civil Service Commission will go a long way to improving efficiency, high productivity and general wellbeing of all Civil Servants in Zamfara State.
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