£2000 a year to retain your SC
This is most likely the pay rise we’ve all been waiting for. And the email says Retention too.
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is this true you get 2000 a year for having SC , a lot of us in a department for the company are SC cleared ( and told we have to be ) yet don't get anything extra for it
What does "SC" mean ?
They must be loosing staff by the bucket load... or struggling to find new staff.
Also what i find interesting is that if a person who wants to leave the company through VR chooses not to have his security clearance updated, they cant actually fire him. And he wouldnt have a job to return to. This is probably a greate idea for the older staff who are desperately seeking VR. DONT RENEW!
Either way this company gives you NOTHING unless they dont have a choice.
Maybe this is the FY24 payrise done.
A seasoned programme manager/delivery manager leaving DXC and joining the contracts market can earn around £800/day, so that £2000 is about 4 days worth of work after tax. There, the maths has been done !!
Without being too ungrateful, £500 paid every quarter isn't enough to retain anybody, and it doesn't replace a payrise that is consolidated and pensionable.
But I'm sure DXC will make a big fuss about how well they are looking after employees and responding to concerns.
It’s a Carrot to try and keep people from leaving . When they agree it will be ripped away again . This would equate to 20k over the time of a single SC clearance period if you don’t renew
this is not retention, so must mean this covers 2023/2024 pay rises.
It seems a complicated wag of giving a payrise…
@tnh+1lMRUELW "What the he-l does SC mean?"
It means the UK's Security Clearance vetting level.
We have 3 levels, BSSC, SC and DV. The last being a deep level security check.
Security clearance . It to persuade people to stay on the UK “cash cow” account . As if DXC lose that in the UK it may as well pack up shop !
What the he-l does SC mean? By the way retention is a normal thing in the industry, get what you can.