Following the newly approved consolidated salary structure which Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State recently approved for the state public servants, the rank of permanent secretary will take home about N1 million, directors, N347,73.33000 while the sum of N18, 780 has been agreed upon as the state new minimum wage.

It new scale shows that the least of the workers, a messenger or cleaner will be earning almost N19, 000 per month, higher than the federal governmentN18,00 minimum wage scale.

This was disclosed on Monday at the conference room of the Ministry of Establishment, Training & Pensions, Alausa, state Secretariat. The conference was led by the ministry’s Commissioner, Mr. Jide Sanwo-Olu, the state Head of Services, Mr. Adesegun Ogunlewe and the leaders of the 14 approved labour unions who met to ratify the new pay package.

At the signing yesterday, Chairman of the state Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC), Comrade Henry Akinwunmiju and his counterpart at the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Hakeem Kazeem explained that by the scale a permanent secretary in the state would be earning at least three times of what a director would earn.