Bt500m bonus for BMA officials

BMA Permanent Secretary Pongsak Semsan said he was preparing to ask the governor to agree in principle to hand out the bonus today.

Members of a committee that considers providing the bonus have already agreed to give a bonus of 0.4 times and 0.5 times the monthly salary to two groups of officials depending on their performance evaluation scores.

Reports said officials with outstanding performance or those getting over 90 per cent of total scores in every category of the evaluation will be given a bonus of 0.5 times their monthly salary; others who get scores lower than 90 per cent will receive 0.4 times.

However, the evaluation criteria will probably be adjusted by the performance evaluation committee, which will meet on Thursday.

Pongsak said the BMA's relevant bureaus would complete the evaluation and certainly hand out the bonus to officials before Christmas.

About 80,000 officials work for the BMA.