The argument that adequate pay is crucial to sustaining the motivation, performance, and integrity of public servants has been widely accepted and documented.1 Evidence from around the world indicates that when their salaries are low, government workers either cut back their productivity or on their work hours. The decline in production is greater as the compensation diminishes. As an alternative, they will actively seek to switch to jobs in the private sector. In many countries in Africa and elsewhere, the economic crises of the 1970s and 1980s, and the attendant deterioration in service delivery, brought public service employment and pay reform to the fore of the policy agenda. Yet despite the extensive documentation of the seriousness of the problems and issues associated with pay reform and the repeated efforts at reform, poor pay has remained an intractable policy issue in most public services around the world.