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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
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2025 Annual Review of Hardship Duty Stations and the status of non-family duty stations

11 November 2025 to
13 November 2025

ICSC, New York, USA

ICSC Technical Task Force meeting on the Review of the Hardship Methodology

14 November 2025 to
14 November 2025

ICSC, New York, USA

Working Group on family/dependency-related elements, including the education grant: Third Meeting

8 December 2025 to
12 December 2025

Geneva

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

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