CSS Exam; the job-scale, salary and

promotions of Civil Servants

 January 30, 2019
CSS is a highly competitive and prestigious exam for which thousands of
aspirants compete every year but only a few succeed. When an aspirant is
preparing for the exam and wants to know the procedure and future happenings
of this exam, he gets insufficient information because of lack of available
sources for them. This quest for the information leads to a lot of questions and
the candidates always looks for the answers of his/her questions.

The salary, job scale and other privileges are commonly unknown to the
aspirants as well as the ones who succeed to pass the exam. All of these
questions are answered here.

Training

Once you’ve passed the exam and are selected for a particular position, there
will be a training session of about 9 months in Lahore at Civil Service Academy
for your job and duties. This training duration is totally comprised of two years
and during these two years, the selected candidate is trained all the possible
aspects of the job. Once you’ve completed your training, you’ll be appointed on
your position.

Scale
After passing the written exam and clearing all the interviews and psychological
assessments, the successful candidate is appointed as a 17th scale officer and the
officer is promoted to 18th scale after a service of around 5 years. After serving
for 7 years on 18th scale, the officer is promoted to 19th scale. The next scale
which is scale-20 requires necessary training at National Institute of Public
Administration (NIPA) which are located in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and
Quetta. Further, five-month training is mandatory to be promoted to 21st
scale. This training is steered at Administrative Staff College, Lahore. In this
scale thread, 22nd is the last scale to which a person can be promoted.

Salary

The successful candidates are directly appointed as 17th scale officers and the
monthly salary for the beginners is around 30,000 rupees which increases
gradually. The salary increases after CTP. Over two dozen civil officers have
left their jobs due to lesser pay and poor privileges, in past few years, according
to a report of Express Tribune.