Common staff costs 804.3

C. Civilian staff costs

Direct programme and administrative costs for 2006

CIVILIAN STAFF AND RELATED COSTS

Other staff costs (increase 698,100)

Methodologies used to calculate costs Staff costs Salary and common staff costs The standard costs (in United States dollars) applied in determining staff costs in the proposed budget are based on actual salary costs for the first three months of 2005, and adjusted for step increments in 2006 2007.

a) The regular budget comprises recurrent staff and non staff costs.

4. Common staff costs 804 300

III. Civilian staff and related costs . 25

(a) Salaries and related staff costs 649,700.

The direct and indirect costs were relatively minor and affordable.

Table 1.2 Standard staff costs (based on United Nations standard salary costs for Geneva)

(c) Report on common staff costs (SPLOS 127)

The other requirements related to non staff costs.

Extrapolated by JIU from UNPD staff costs for its 71 staff members at Headquarters.

Common staff costs were lower than in 2002 for reasons of lower staff turnover.

Salaries and common staff costs of international staff are net of staff assessment and are based on standard costs for United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization (UNTSO) which is applicable to Cyprus.

The higher requirement under common staff costs is attributable to service and family allowances being charged to common staff costs but budgeted under international staff salaries, combined with a higher percentage of international staff holding 100 series appointments.

Furthermore, the reductions under common staff costs reflect both the realized vacancy rates described above and the lower than budgeted actual rate of common staff costs ( 5,526,400).

These estimated requirements are needed to cover the salaries and related staff costs of UNIDIR regular staff.

Field operating costs have been reduced by 1,147,800 and the new staffing structure resulted in lower staff costs.

The amount of 6,282,800 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for 45 continuing posts.

The amount of 1,636,500 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for 10 continuing posts.

Of this total an estimated 1.9 trillion are direct costs such as medical care, while 0.2 trillion are indirect costs such as missed work.

UNHCR will review the management of project personnel and instructions on direct staff employment.

Staff costs have been shown on a net basis under section 3 above.

(iii) Biennium 2000 2001 charges of 23,137 related to IAEA library staff costs

In the same period, staff related costs of closure amounted to almost 20 million.

They can take the form of direct subsidies, reduced interest rates or reduced costs for acquiring land.

Expenditure (staff costs and field office costs) for the same period amounted to 8.8 million, leading to a surplus of 0.5 million in 2004.

Those costs are related to maintenance expenses and salaries for the local staff and security.

The amount of 1,075,000 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for five continuing posts and one additional post (P 3).

The amount of 338,300 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for two new posts (1 P 5, 1 P 4).

United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board (including United Nations participation in the costs of the secretariat of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund)

The amount of 3,921,600 provides for general temporary assistance, common staff costs, staff assessment and mission subsistence allowance, when applicable, for the 25 additional positions.

Staff costs account for 64 per cent of the regular budget, of which 60 per cent represents the cost of area staff and four per cent represents the cost of international staff.

The requirements for national staff costs are based on the established national staff salary scales for national General Service staff and National Officers and include a 25 per cent delayed recruitment factor.

The attraction of the SDR donation scheme is that it does not impose any direct costs on donor countries.

(g) Conduct an assessment of hidden costs of conflicts, covering the cost for wasted time, loss of skilled staff, low morale and productivity and health costs

UNRWA regards the allocation of current funding to future staff costs inappropriate to its current situation.

In paragraph 379, the Board recommended that UNICEF adopt and implement a methodology to determine the total costs, including staff costs, of its major information technology projects.

UNICEF continues to encourage thematic other resources to reduce transaction costs and make more resources available for direct programme assistance.

This is in addition to what has been specifically recommended by the Committee on non staff costs.

The additional requirements were attributable mainly to higher than budgeted actual average payments for salaries and common staff costs to local staff during the 12 month period.

The amount of 2,088,800 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for seven continuing posts and one additional post at the P 3 level.