
8 July 2025
James Webb
[FYI request #31411 email]
Dear James
Official Information Request
Our Ref: PSCR 2025-0766
I refer to your official information request received on 26 June 2025 for:
1. Please provide all advice you have provided to the Chief Executive or Ministers on the
financial implications of removing pay scales and step progression structures in the public
service since June 2024.
2.
Please provide any research conducted on the impact of pay scales and step progression
structures on the public service workforce. This could include, but is not limited to, documents
discussing pay equity, workforce pay relative to the private sector, or potential changes to
pay structures.
Information publicly available
The Public Service Commission has not provided advice to the Chief Executive of the Public Service
Commission or Ministers on the financial implications of removing pay scales and step progression
structures in the public service.
The report listed in the table below is within scope of part two of your request and will be publicly
available on the Public Service Commission’s website at the link provided in the table below soon.
Item
Date
Document Description
Website Address
1
14 October 2024
REPORT – 2024-0313 – Prevalence of step-
Publicly available soon –
based pay systems
Publications - Te Kawa
Mataaho Public Service
Commission
Accordingly, I have refused your request for the document listed in the above table under section
18(d) of the Official Information Act 1982 on the grounds the information requested is or wil soon
be publicly available.
Level 10, Te Iho | 1 Lambton Quay | PO Box 329
Wellington 6140 | New Zealand
Phone +64 4 495 6600

If you wish to discuss this decision with us, please feel free to contact
[email address]. You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
freephone 0800 802 602.
Please note that we intend to publish this letter (with your personal details removed) on the Te
Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission’s website.
Yours sincerely
Nicky Dirks
Manager – Ministerial and Executive Services
Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission
Document Outline
- Background
- Considerations for Scope of the Request
- Record of Decision
- Documents Table
- Consultations that have occurred