Standard salaries in the UN agencies, which grade to target

Standard salaries in the UN agencies, which grade to target

  December 04, 2017    Destination Leman - sejour tourisme, affaires

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Are you applying to join one of the numerous UN agencies ? Are you already in the recruitment process ? Discover exactly how much you are going to make in terms of United Nations salary scale. The International Civil Service Commission is the governing body of the United Nations decides on the salary scales, the base wage and the post adjustment.

Grades and related salaries in the UN and required experience

There are 8 grades in the professional scale of salaries. There are 7 grades in the General Services scale. For each of the grades, years of experiences are represented in Steps. Here are the minimum requirements:

Professional	Min. Experience	General Service	Min. Experience
P1	No work experience	G1	No work experience
P2	2 year experience	G2	2 year experience
P3	5 year experience	G3	3 year experience
P4	7 year experience	G4	4 year experience
P5	10 year experience	G5	5 year experience
D1	min. 15 year experience	G6	6 year experience
D2	> 15 year experience	G7	7 year experience
o	o	o	o

Look closely at what is the highest grade you could target and prepare your application.

Information on General Services positions

General Service staff is locally recruited, and the work usually consists in supporting the administrative aspects of the work performed at the UN. The tasks are usually highly procedural. It looks like most "G staff" work assisting teams, coordinators and directors in Geneva. G staff working as team assistants get really busy when organizing meetings with external participants. Assistants to Directors get extremely busy processing the request flow coming from the teams.

It is however very different in other countries. For example, in a large Asian country, "G staff" do the work "P staff" would do in Europe, because of the competition and the large number of highly qualified staff.

Discover your future UN salary here, details by grade and by step !