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Pay and Benefits

The United Nations offers you an attractive remuneration package with competitive pay and benefits. The level of pay for staff in the Professional and higher categories that are recruited internationally is set by reference to the highest paying national civil service. Staff members in categories that are locally recruited are compensated in accordance with the best prevailing conditions of service among other employers in the locality.

Three women of diverse skin tones and hair colors are sitting at a podium and giving a panel talk. Mathu Joyini (centre), Chair of the Sixty-seventh Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and Permanent Representative of South Africa, chairs the opening of the sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women. Manuel Elías (Photo), New York, UN Photo, 2023