HUS year 2023: Pay and rewards
A strategic goal for 2023 was to investigate how to develop pay and rewards in the period 2024 to 2026. Collective agreements specified several local arrangements for 2023 and negotiations for a new compensation system under the collective agreement for doctors.
Allocation of salary increases
In the allocation of pay increases, our aim was to better consider skills and responsibilities in our compensation systems and to ensure availability of personnel.
In the autumn, we conducted an impact assessment for the pay increase items mandated in the HYVTES and SOTE collective agreements.
In addition to allocating local pay increase items, we negotiated a new compensation system under the collective agreement for doctors, known as career wages. We used local pay increase items in the compensation system reform.
The purpose of pay increases is to improve competitiveness.
The primary objective of the pay increases was:
- to improve competitiveness,
- to promote personnel availability,
- to improve the quality of working life and the effectiveness of service production
- to correct local pay anomalies by better consideration of competence and responsibilities in the compensation system, and
- to begin wage harmonization.
These goals were attained in the various agreement sectors for instance by revising task-specific salaries and by adding model groups to price items. We also began wage harmonization.
We fell short of full attainment of the strategic goal for pay and rewards, as we focused our efforts on the implementation of mandatory provisions of the collective agreements. However, these were not insignificant in view of the strategic goal, because there was an exceptionally high number of local arrangements.
We postponed the review of performance-based pay elements and various allowances at HUS to 2024.