What Salaries and Remuneration Commission does

The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) is a Kenyan constitutional commission established under Article 230 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 and operationalized through the SRC Act, 2011. It is headquartered in Nairobi at Williamson House, 6th Floor, 4th Ngong Avenue, and operates with 251-500 employees funded exclusively through the national government budget via parliamentary allocation. SRC's mandate covers two functions: setting and reviewing remuneration and benefits for state officers (President, Deputy President, Cabinet Secretaries, Members of Parliament, Governors, Constitutional Commission members, and other Article 260 designees), and advising national and county governments on remuneration for all other public officers including civil servants, teachers, health workers, county employees, and uniformed services.

SRC delivers its mandate through a portfolio of digital platforms — including the Wage Bill Monitoring Information System, the iJES Integrated Job Evaluation System, the Performance & Productivity Rewards Platform, and a Telephone Voice Over system — alongside statutory publications such as gazette notices (issued every five years and ahead of state officer elections), circulars, salary surveys, quarterly Wage Bill Bulletins, and the annual Public Service Remuneration and Benefits Policy Guidelines. Engagement is conducted through national wage bill conferences, job evaluation clinics, public participation forums, and stakeholder sensitization meetings.

The commission is constitutionally independent, with a Chairperson and Commissioners appointed by the President alongside ex-officio members including the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, the Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, and the Attorney General. All SRC services are provided free of charge under its published Service Charter, and the commission derives no commercial revenue. Quantifiable outcomes cited include a reduction in Kenya's public sector wage bill from 57.33% of ordinary revenue (FY 2013/2014) to 48.1% (FY 2018/2019), against the PFM Regulations 2015 target of 35% of ordinary revenue and the international developing-country benchmark of 7.5% of GDP.

Name

Salaries and Remuneration Commission

Legal name

Salaries and Remuneration Commission

Website

https://src.go.ke

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) is Kenya's constitutional commission that sets remuneration for state officers and advises on compensation for public officers across national and county governments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Sector Remuneration Management

NAICS

Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs) (92313)

SIC

Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

Civil Service & Public Administration (HR, Org Dev, Workforce Policy) (BPAIAAAD)

Keywords

• Public sector remuneration
• Wage bill management
• Job evaluation services
• Salary survey research
• Government compensation policy

Headquarters

HQ city

Nairobi

HQ country

Kenya

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Government Funding: SRC is a constitutional commission funded through the national government budget. The commission does not generate commercial revenue but is allocated funds by Parliament to execute its constitutional mandate of setting and reviewing remuneration for state officers and advising on public officers' remuneration.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) is a constitutional commission of the Government of Kenya that sets and reviews remuneration and benefits for state officers and advises national and county governments on compensation for public officers. It conducts job evaluations, salary surveys, and wage bill monitoring to harmonise public sector pay structures and ensure fiscal sustainability of Kenya's public wage bill. All services and digital platforms are provided free of charge to government institutions, state officers, public officers, and citizens.

Product overview

The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) is a constitutional commission that operates as a regulatory and advisory body rather than a commercial product company. Its core offerings consist of digital platforms for wage bill management and job evaluation (including the Wage Bill Monitoring Information System, Performance & Productivity Rewards Platform, iJES, and Telephone Voice Over System), along with official publications including gazette notices, circulars, research papers, wage bill bulletins, and annual reports. These products and services are designed to support the harmonization of public sector remuneration, ensure fiscal sustainability of Kenya's public wage bill, and provide guidance to national and county governments on compensation matters.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Wage Bill Monitoring Information System An online compliance and monitoring platform that tracks public sector wage bill data to ensure fiscal sustainability and adherence to remuneration guidelines across government institutions.
• Performance & Productivity Rewards Platform A digital platform supporting the measurement and rewarding of productivity and performance across the public sector.
• iJES – Integrated Job Evaluation System A comprehensive system for conducting job evaluations across the public service, supporting job grading structures and salary determinations.
• Telephone Voice Over System A digital communication system for stakeholder engagement and information dissemination by SRC.
• Gazette Notices on Remuneration Legally binding publications gazetting remuneration and benefits for state officers, published in the Kenya Gazette every five years and before new state officer elections.
• SRC Circulars Official communications issued periodically to ministries, departments, agencies, county governments, and public institutions on matters affecting State and public officers, covering allowances, job evaluation, and remuneration guidelines.
• Research Papers Research publications including public sector wage bill studies, public-private sector wage differentials, and pay determination reports used to inform SRC's remuneration decisions.
• Wage Bill Bulletins Quarterly reports tracking public sector wage bill trends, providing fiscal monitoring data for stakeholders.
• Public Service Remuneration and Benefits Policy Guidelines Comprehensive guidelines establishing the framework for remuneration and benefits across the Kenyan public service.
• Annual Reports Annual reports and financial statements documenting SRC operations, achievements, and financial performance.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced public sector wage bill from 57.33% of ordinary revenue in 2013/2014 to 48.1% in 2018/2019
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 November 2022SRC and KNBS signed an MOU for collaboration on data sharing and statistical coordination. KNBS provides demographic and economic data essential for salary surveys and wage bill analysis, while SRC contributes employment and remuneration data for national statistics.
• State Corporations Advisory Committee (SCAC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSCAC works with SRC on matters relating to state corporations governance and remuneration frameworks. The committees collaborate on policy implementation affecting semi-autonomous government agencies.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Public Service Commission of Uganda: Uganda's statutory body for public service HR governance, including establishment and salary-related functions. It is a regional counterpart operating under similar East African fiscal constraints and civil service structures.
• Public Service Commission of South Africa: South Africa's equivalent public service commission handling recruitment, performance, and conditions of service for national/provincial public servants. It is a functional analogue across jurisdictions and faces a similar wage bill-vs-service delivery trade-off in its public sector.

Direct peers

• Public Service Commission of Kenya: A sister constitutional commission responsible for recruiting, promoting, and disciplining public officers in Kenya's civil service. Highly comparable because both bodies administer overlapping HR-policy levers for the same national and county public workforce.
• State Corporations Advisory Committee (SCAC): Kenyan government committee that advises on the performance and governance of state corporations. SCAC is a strategic partner of SRC on remuneration for state corporation employees and operates as a peer in the same Kenyan public-sector compensation ecosystem.
• Teachers Service Commission (TSC) of Kenya: The constitutional body that employs, deploys, and manages remuneration for Kenya's public school teachers. TSC is a comparable peer because SRC's mandate explicitly covers advising on teacher remuneration and grading, with TSC as a major stakeholder and counterparty.

Broad incumbents

• Mercer: Global HR and compensation consulting firm providing salary surveys, benefits benchmarking, and workforce analytics. Comparable because SRC's salary survey mandate (covering 20+ sectors) directly mirrors Mercer's compensation benchmarking work for public and private employers.
• Korn Ferry Hay Group: Global compensation and job evaluation consultancy whose Hay Job Evaluation methodology is widely used by governments and large employers. Comparable because SRC's iJES platform executes a similar function — standardized job grading and salary structure design — at the Kenyan public sector scale.
• Willis Towers Watson: Global advisory firm offering actuarial, compensation, and pension-related services. Comparable because SRC must operate against Kenya's Ksh 1 trillion pension liability and design remuneration frameworks that interact with retirement obligations — an area where WTW has deep public-sector expertise.

Others

• Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS): Kenya's official statistics agency and SRC's data-sharing partner via MOU. It is an adjacent peer rather than a competitor — providing the demographic, economic, and labor market data that powers SRC's salary surveys and wage bill analysis.
• Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) Kenya: National trade union federation that nominates a Commissioner to SRC and is a primary stakeholder in every wage bill and remuneration cycle. It is not a peer in the corporate sense but operates as the principal counterparty in SRC's salary negotiation and harmonization mandate.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/SRCKE
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Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

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