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Promoting and maintaining exemplary service to the United Nations common system

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Determines

  • Methodologies by which the principles for determining conditions of service should be applied
  • Job classification standards
  • Mobility and Hardship allowances
  • Post adjustment classifications
  • Daily Subsistence Allowance rates
  • Danger Pay

Recommends to the General Assembly

  • Broad principles to determine conditions of service
  • Scales of salaries for professional staff
  • Staff assessment
  • Education grant, home leave, repatriation grant, termination indemnities, dependency allowances & language incentive for Professional and above staff

Recommends to the Organizations

  • General Service salary scales at headquarters
  • Human resources policies
  • Gender balance/Work-life issues
  • Contractual arrangements
  • Performance Management
  • Standards of conduct
  • Staff training policy
ICSC Calendar
VIEW ALL OUR EVENTS
Annual review of hardship duty stations according to conditions of life and work

12 November 2024 to
14 November 2024

New York

17 March 2025 to
28 March 2025

New York

28 July 2025 to
8 August 2025

UPU, Bern

Cost-of-Living Survey Schedules
Place-to-place (PDF)
Housing (PDF)

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