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Job-related Allowances

Job-related allowances (JRAs) are additional payments to compensate officers for aspects of their work which are not normally expected of their grade or rank, and which have not been taken into account in the determination of their pay scales.

The six categories of JRAs are -

  1. (a) Extraneous Duties Allowance (or Extra Duties Allowance for Disciplined Services);
  2. (b) Hardship Allowance;
  3. (c) Shift Duty Allowance;
  4. (d) Typhoon / Rainstorm Black Warning Allowance;
  5. (e) Special Allowance; and
  6. (f) Uniform (and Kit) Allowance.

Under the established JRA review and monitoring mechanism, individual JRAs payable to officers of both the civilian grades and disciplined services grades are subject to regular review and re-approval, if justified, by the end of the specified period. The regular comprehensive review of JRAs is conducted once every five years. In the intervening years, departments are required to submit annual returns to the Civil Service Bureau for close monitoring of payment of JRAs.