Market Premiums

In 2018 the Authority introduced the use of market premium payments for the purpose of attraction within recruitment and retention of key staff. The recruitment of certain specialist staff, particularly within the Information Technology (IT) department, has proved difficult with roles being advertised and subsequent applications being poor in quality and quantity. Therefore a procedure to apply market premium was developed and approved through Establishment Group. However even with the application of market premiums the
recruitment to IT roles has continued to be difficult. Therefore further work will be carried out to benchmark all IT roles, through an external organisation, to develop an IT specific market premium process.