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INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM
MEMORANDUM INTERIEUR
REFERENCE: ICSC-PADJ-0415-01
TO:
Recipients of Post Adjustment
Classification Memo
THROUGH:
Mr. Wolfgang Stöckl
Vice-Chairman, ICSC
FROM:
Ibrahim S. Yansaneh
Chief, Cost-of-Living Division
SUBJECT:
1.
DATE: 31 March 2015
Post adjustment classification memo for April 2015
I am pleased to send you post adjustment multipliers for April 2015. Note that only duty
stations with changes in post adjustment multipliers are listed.
2.
The post adjustment multipliers, applicable to all group I duty stations, with effect from 1
April 2015, are given in table 1.
Table 1. Changes to post adjustment multipliers for group I duty stations – April 2015
Duty Station
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada - Montreal
Canada - Ottawa
Canada - Toronto
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France - Lyon, Elsewhere
France - Paris
French Guiana
Germany - Berlin
Germany - Bonn
Germany - Dresden
Germany - Hamburg
Gibraltar
Greece
Hungary
3.
Multiplier
Duty Station
Multiplier
38.2
37.8
35.6
17.3
41.7
43.9
53.8
15.2
23.7
46.6
37.4
38.8
42.1
35.6
28.6
24.9
24.9
26.8
77.8
20.6
19.7
Iceland
Ireland
Italy - Brindisi
Italy - Rome
Japan
Luxembourg
Malta
Monaco
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal, Lisbon
Portugal, Guimaraes
Romania
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
30.3
31.8
31.4
37.6
68.6
39.5
28.5
42.1
31.3
42.7
19.1
24.4
2.1
5.5
20.8
16.1
30.0
35.5
90.4
77.8
Based on results of the most recent cost-of-living surveys, the following post adjustment
multipliers are applicable for the Democratic Republic of Congo 54.4 and Vietnam 30.0 effective 1
April 2015.
4.
Cost-of-living survey results did not trigger a change in multiplier for Egypt, Philippines,
Poland and Sudan.
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5.
The gap closure measure is applicable for the duty stations listed in table 2 below. A
personal transitional allowance (PTA) is applicable to staff members who were at the duty stations
before 1 April 2015. The next PTA revisions are due in July 2015.
Table 2
DUTY STATION
6.
PTA
Congo, Democratic Republic of
3.3
Vietnam
2.1
The Gap closure measure is completed for Togo.
Therefore the personal transitional
allowance (PTA) is no longer applicable for this duty stations effective 1 April 2015.
7.
Based on the most recent cost-of-living survey results, the revised rental subsidy thresholds
at dependency and single rates applicable effective 1 April 2015, are listed in table 3 below:
Table 3
RENTAL SUBSIDY THRESHOLDS (PER CENT)
DUTY STATION
Poland
cc.
DEPENDENCY RATE
SINGLE RATE
16
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Mr. W. Stöckl
Ms. Cleopatra Todis
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