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Glad to see some public sector workers are getting pay rises above 1% now, but obviously not matching inflation which isn't great.
However there are parts of the public sector which aren't covered by pay review bodies. Are they going to be stuck with 1% for a long time yet. A statistic I have heard a couple of time is that public sector workers have had an effective 10% pay cut since the financial crisis as their wage increases have lagged behind inflation for many years now.
For me I'm not one of the blue light responders so uniikely to be classed in the public as important but I am a Category One responder like the police and fire brigade. We certainly have a huge problem with retention and morale now especially for people who've been in the jobs for a number of years who also have vital much needed expertise and experience. Those people are going to leave soon.
I don't agree with strikes and will never strike myself but I know a lot of PS workers have been very patient for many years but that patience is wearing thin.
What's the pay increases in the private sector like over the last few years?
What's the pay increases in the private sector like over the last few years?
I know that in a lot of sectors, if you have stayed evens then you're doing well - lots of companies have had to do rounds of voluntary pay reductions to minimise redundancies. We got 2% which is well over and above the average in our sector.
There seems to be a myth that private sector employees get big pay rises every year. Simply isn't true.
My own pay did go up quite a lot, but that was due to a promotion and being able to demonstrate justification for giving me more money (i.e making more profit for the company). But it's far from a blanket thing.
What's the pay increases in the private sector like over the last few years?
Each pay rise I've had recently has come about by me moving roles to another company. I can't remember the last time I had an in service pay review.
I have had yearly pay rises for the past eight years between 1 - 2%. Probably overall below inflation for the same period.What's the pay increases in the private sector like over the last few years?
What's the pay increases in the private sector like over the last few years?
I get paid 5% less now than I did when I was made redundant in 2012.
It's taken me five years and 4 jobs to build it back up to that level from the 27% pay drop that i experienced.
In an industry with high mobility of staff and a variable supply of work the salaries are almost entirely market driven. You are only worth as much as the next guy who is prepared to take less to do your job.
The stability of the public sector is not without it's attractions.
Just to check, it's 1% [u]plus[/u] progression awards, isn't it?
Need to include pensions and job security to get decent picture, but in answer
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In other part of the world when the public sector gets a pay rise the inevitable consequences always happen ... leading to faster price increase of everything everywhere. 🙄
In the far east when public sector gets a pay rise the entire population suffer. Fact. 🙄
In the far east pay rise for private sector is practically unheard of ... 🙄
Also the public sector (far east) get generous pension, while for the private sector everyone relies on their saving to see them through their retirement. Or for their children to look after them after retirement or beg for a living. 🙄
DUP just voted against government on NHS pay rise motion.
That £1 billion looks like money well spent 🙂
[url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/conservatives-suffer-defeat-on-labour-motion-calling-for-higher-pay-for-nhs-staff-a7945241.html ]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/conservatives-suffer-defeat-on-labour-motion-calling-for-higher-pay-for-nhs-staff-a7945241.html[/url]
wage data released today said that average wage increase was 2.1%
So if public sector were locked to 1%, that suggests that private sector must have averaged over 2.1 to drag up the overall average.
Just to check, it's 1% plus progression awards, isn't it?
Our progression awards have been scrapped a couple of years ago, so someone who comes into my job newly qualified gets paid the same as me, which is annoying as I spent years of hard graft to get to that level. Only way I can get paid more than the 1% is to apply for a new job a grade up.
I was judged as being exceptional last year and working way beyond my pay grade but I just get 1% pay rise same as everyone else, there is a hint I might get a small non pensionable bonus (not an addition to pay) but it'll be fractions of a percent (probably less than £100 minus tax) and that'll be only if other people are judged to not be performing as expected therefore don't get their 1%. Overall pay increases across the 10,000 workforce have to average at 1%.
Stat on pm show last night was that private sector wages dropped in 2007, public sector down on 2010. Both are down about 10% on their peaks so both sectors in similar boat. Apparently.
Edit: in real terms
It's worth noting that whilst the Gov seems to be softening on PS pay caps, they're not offering any more money for it - do we think the Police, the Prison Service, The NHS or the Fire Service (amongst others) are sitting on a budget surplus just waiting for the cap to go so they can pay everyone a bit more?
It feels like they fancy shifting the blame down the road a bit.
Could help though, I know my Wife's team is spending a fortune on agency staff because they can't maintain staff levels and it's the most experienced, best qualified nurses going because they're topped out on their band. The younger less experienced ones are staying pace with inflation by incremental pay rises.
I'm not sure comparing public to private sectors is helpful in the case of emplyers of either type who are struggling to retain and recruit staff.
I sit with much excitment waiting on the teachers massive pay rise!!!
It feels like they fancy shifting the blame down the road a bit.
Indeed
What the Tories are doing is what they always do. Divide and rule.
So with the help of their friends in the press, having driven a resentful wedge between the public and private sector, they're now moving on to dividing the 'worthy' and unworthy' parts of the public sector.
It stinks!
I'm freelance and in my industry the hourly rates are exactly the same as they were 10 years ago. Not a single incling of a rise in rates, except maybe in London
So the question we need to be asking is why we've had an economy where wages for the vast majority of public and private sector workers have essentially stagnated for a decade, at the same time as the wealth of those at the top has risen exponentially
The rich have done very nicely out of recession and subsequent austerity. Corporations have had their tax (which they don't bother to pay anyway) slashed
An interesting stat for you: if the minimum wage had been pegged to the rises in boardroom pay since its introduction, it would presently stand at £22 an hour
Let's direct the anger where it's due! Because Brexit will be used, once again,as an opportunity to redistribute wealth upwards, just as the post-crash crisis has
Those needed to control riots are getting a (small) pay rise.
That's exactly what I thought to Harry. There's only one group they want to keep on-side
The rich have done very nicely out of recession and subsequent austerity [sic]
Not they haven't, but let's not details get in the way.
Those needed to control riots are getting a (small) pay rise.
We aren't getting a pay rise - we are getting 1% when inflation is at 2.9%, and we are getting a 1% bonus to be payed over a year, is taxable and calculated using last year's pay scales. The bonus is to come from individual Forces existing budgets, so the exercise hasn't cost the Government a penny.
I'm not knocking the extra money (about £450 gross for me and the same for my wife) but rest assured that every copper in the business knows it is a cynical headline grabbing ploy by the Conservatives and there is not an ounce of good will earned by this measure.
Not they haven't, but let's not details get in the way.
Sauce?
Everything I've read on the subject has shown a greater gap between rich and poor and an increasing number of millionaires and billionaires being 'created' year on year.
The rich have gotten significantly richer in the last 8 years.
Just for you THM....
[url= http://www.****/news/article-2987885/Rich-64-richer-financial-crash-poor-lost-HALF-wealth.html ]Straight from the hotbed of revolutionary socialism.... the Daily Mail[/url]
Do feel free to cite any contradictory evidence about those poor souls on their uppers, and down to their last few million
Not as simple as it looks. You may give your employees. ore than 1% pay rise, but it comes from your existing budget.
So if you want a pay rise, leave the office stationary where it is...
Sauce?
Official stats - better than the Daily Wail - bins the irony of you resorting to the Wail is delicious 😉
The rich have gotten significantly richer in the last 8 years.
I'll hand it to you, that does at least make for a better sounding story. The truth is v dull in contrast
Price controls can't work forever.
I hope Theresa May has some idea about what to do about this, as post-Brexit, upwards wage pressure can only increase given that we'll be putting up a barrier to entry for cheap(er) foreign labour.
A statistic I have heard a couple of time is that public sector workers have had an effective 10% pay cut since the financial crisis as their wage increases have lagged behind inflation for many years now.
It's more likely that the effective cut is more due to increased pension contributions over the last few years.
The junior/middle grades in my department are a year into very generous wage increases (about 5%), due to 'not opting out' of contractual changes, which may go some way to explaining the PM's statement I caught the back-end of on the radio earlier.
As eluded to above, comparisons of public/private wages is pointless unless talking outside of generalist grades, and even then any comparisons bring multiple discrepancies, most of which can't be quantified.
When the general economy means that wage rises are commonplace , then public sector will follow suit. It needs to retain staff as much as anyone, and you know, unions.
Of course using the emergency services, health staff etc generates argumentative responses (also see: pre-cooked sausages), but it's a larger economy issue, rather than public v private, but views like that won't generate income for the media folk that thrive on outrage 🙂
An interesting stat for you: if the minimum wage had been pegged to the rises in boardroom pay since its introduction, it would presently stand at £22
And what would have happened to the jobs market in that case?
Progression vanished years ago!
Absolutely agree that the emergency services deserve a bigger rise, but those of us who collect the taxes that pay for it all are suffering as well, and from a lower starting salary.
Plus the big increases in our pension contributions.
My take home pay has been stable due to the tax threshold going up so much during the same period. Shame about the inflation....
[url= https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rich-double-their-wealth-in-five-years-bb7w5nv58dz ]So still not producing any actual evidence then Hurty?[/url]
Come on.... don't.be coy. Stop [s]trolling[/s] teasing us 😀
Oh... do excuse my resorting to the usual socialist publications
Posted it loads of times my old China - but don't want to stop a good rant. Much more fun to watch you wail against the RW press and then use the actual Wail as a source.
You could check the official stats if you want, but I wouldn't advise it 😉
That's a no then?
No it's a, "much more fun to let your rant on, quoting the Wail". You can have that one, it's worth it......as I said the real story is far too dull
Typical, I get 'Dismissed due to medical inefficiency' from the prison service then a pay rise comes along. Being on part time that would've been worth £200 a year to me!
Bugger, I was thinking about you essel, assuming you were a beneficiary. Sorry to hear that
What's the pay increases in the private sector like over the last few years?
-60% (lost good job, got shit job)
Glory be, is it to much to ask of any government that the people they effectively employ aren't put at a financial disadvantage every year?
And now we should be grateful that public sector workers aren't [i]quite[/i] as financially worse off than they could be?
They are not. On the contrary the are better off than their private sector peers. Is it too much to ask a government to address this REAL inequality?
Pfft, we're not getting it, and even if we did the MOD just raise the price of accommodation and food charges, so it doesn't actually benefit the lads and lasses. Ah well, no wars, back to being second class citizens. Until there is a fuel strike/fire strike/flood/Internal security issue.
Of course not but the private sector pay isn't controlled by the government.
I've had no increment for 7 years, which isn't gauranteed anyway and my pension isn't a pay rise either so no idea why you bring this up every thread on a the public sector. It would be nice just to keep up with the cost of living.
Would that be the hugely increased chasm between rich and poor then Hurty?
Don't worry. Theresa has raked at length about batting for the 'just about managing'
And she's not just talked about it! She's put her money where her mouth is. She's...... erm..... welll she's..... erm ....... no.......
George massively cut corporation tax though. I'm sure that helped
The proposal about public sector pay has just put into focus how totally devoid of ideas this government is. It's insulting!
While their energies are being expended exclusively on Brexit. Which is just going to make things ten times worse!
Would you like them to take the offer back?
They are not. On the contrary the are better off than their private sector peers. Is it too much to ask a government to address this REAL inequality?
Why does private sector and public sector pay have to be linked? Tell me, who is the private sector peer to a professional nurse who's been assaulted three times this year already?
Divide and rule
Would you like them to take the offer back?
WOW! Is that your response. 😆
Every year I've had a pay increase in the NHS it's come with a national insurance contribution rise, pretty much cancelling out any net increase. I think it was £2 a month extra last year I ended up with.
@scruff, sounds very similar to the militaries woes. ****ing politicians.
No it's a question - the ? should have been a give away - to the notion that a pay rise is insulting
Why does private sector and public sector pay have to be linked
Hmmm....
No it's a question - the ? should have been a give away - to the notion that a pay rise is insulting
It was not a question. It's like something I say to my kids if they turn up their tea.
We're going to take a small minority of you and give you a pay cut - on top of the seven you've already had - that's not as bad as the rest of them are getting
Not insulting?
But as has been said many times you can't compare private to public. Teaching, nursing, fire and police services, armed forces.
For myself my take home (teaching Scotland) pay is actually less than 7 years ago. With increases in pension payments and professional body subscriptions.
Is my pay ok? Yes. Has it kept up with the mess education has become? No. Is it better than private sector doing same job? No when I was private sector doing same job I was paid 6%more than in public sector.
Who is taking home the big increases if not people here?
IIt's like something I say to my kids if they turn up their tea.
I understand your response then 😉
Has it kept up with the mess education has become?
In Scotland - I thought education was a priority
Divide and conquer whilst encouraging the gap between the haves and have nots widens.
Once the bottom of the pay range is the rate for the job then it'll be cheaper to privatise. Just saying.
MY company i scrap for pay rises, but industry in general has done well, so its my fault for not swapping jobs.
That's the difference with public vs private sector work. In the private sector you can earn more and increase your wadges usually most effectively by moving employers if your company is shit, usually well above ROI. If you're public sector worker you don't have that option.
Is it better than private sector doing same job? No
Indeed every teacher I know who has left state to go private has said they got a pay rise somewhere between a bit and quite a lot, they get the same pension too.
Bugger, I was thinking about you essel, assuming you were a beneficiary. Sorry to hear that
Cheers THM, appreciated. Typical of Mrs EGF to go & catch a bad dose of bowel cancer & me to get dismissed for looking after her. (as well as having my own 'head up arse' problems)
TBH I'm not missing the public sector (HMPS) one bit & prison staff will never actually be paid their worth.
Sorry to hear that Essel but they probably did you a favour in the long run.
Sorry to hear that and v best wishes to you both
I do remember you not enjoying your job though
Thanks Drac & THM, I really feel for my (ex) colleagues in the Prison Service, a thankless, undervalued, underestimated, secret, very dangerous, stressful to the max, underpaid, understaffed job. (mainly thanks to Grayling, the prick)
It seems that for quite some time I've been the only prison officer on this forum who has had actual 1st hand experience of life (& death) on a residential unit in a jail.
If anyone on here has more experience & claims to deny that prison staff at current staffing levels shouldn't be all on 40k+, then speak up.
@esselgruntfuttock. I wholeheardtly agree, at least with my job they give me a weapon to defend myself from violent attack.
Absolutely Essel I've experienced what you deal with but on a very small level of course when attending incidents in prisons. What they have done to the prison service since privatising is disgusting.
I work in and around the public sector a lot and i am always amazed how little some folks get paid then gobsmacked by the mega salarys that some are on.
We scrapped annual pay rises in our business this year and replaced it with a profit share, I was starting to worry that our base salary level was getting quite high. The team is happy with this as they will get 4 × as much from the profit share than a 3% pay rise. This is not something that can be done in the private sector. We have inflation proofed the profit share by raising the percentage in line with inflation. I think a lot more businesses need to link performance to employee income
So should they reject the offer or T(H)M take it back...
Well firstly as posted above is this actually funded with new money? No by the looks of it so you need to cut to give people a below inflation pay [s]rise[/s] cut.
lets hope none of these people want to buy a house
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jul/18/uk-house-prices-rise-5-percent
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jun/13/house-price-inflation-six-month-high-ons
There has been a 6 year pay freeze at my work... I am doing better than some having moved jobs but many people are 10-15% down compared to inflation...
People are starting to move on now so either the salaries will rise or the company will cease to trade (or will move more of the operations outside of the U.K.)
Just need for an MP to come up with the idea of outsourcing the civil service to India...
[i]By the people for the people[/i]
[b]Buy the people floor the people[/b]
Ooops, double post.
EGF - I'm still keeping an eye on that house for you in case it ever comes up for sale 😉 who knows what the future holds!
We aren't getting a pay rise - we are getting 1% when inflation is at 2.9%, and we are getting a 1% bonus to be payed over a year, is taxable and calculated using last year's pay scales. The bonus is to come from individual Forces existing budgets, so the exercise hasn't cost the Government a penny.I'm not knocking the extra money (about £450 gross for me and the same for my wife) but rest assured that every copper in the business knows it is a cynical headline grabbing ploy by the Conservatives and there is not an ounce of good will earned by this measure.
It may even save the govt money, since they will get the 20% or whatever back as tax revenue from the million/couple of million pounds or so each force has to find in its budget to pay the 1% bonus-masquerading-as-a-rise.
Yeah a ****ing great offer.
"After years of low inflation and real-terms pay cuts, we've screwed up our one claim to fiscal competence in losing control of inflation so this year you're getting higher inflation and another real-terms pay cut"
Could I just ask the public sector workers - who there seem to be a few on here - do you think that there's any appetite for strikes or other industrial action?
It seems like there's a change of mood among the unions, but I don't know as I don't work in the public sector whether that translates. Len McCluskey is just itching for a fight I reckon, but then he always is! But other normally cooler heads seem to be suggesting this could be the straw that breaks the camels back
Personally, I think this has been very cynically done. Heavily hinting for about a year that the cap will be dropped, then coming up with this somewhat underwhelming proposal? I can understand the anger
Are we in for a winter of discontent then?
Could I just ask the public sector workers - who there seem to be a few on here - do you think that there's any appetite for strikes or other industrial action?
Very realistic we already had NHS areas striking the last few years.
Could I just ask the public sector workers - who there seem to be a few on here - do you think that there's any appetite for strikes or other industrial action?
No not really. I lost a lot of money 2002/3. Plan is just stick to our role map and refuse to do anything outwith that also to remove all goodwill towards the employers.
Could I just ask the public sector workers - who there seem to be a few on here - do you think that there's any appetite for strikes or other industrial action?
Im sort of public sector - university on charity grant, science has always had crap pay & short contracts but weve been on 1% for the last few years and it is hurting.
Im not sure if there would be a strike here, but work with jr doctors whom, even the tory fanboy among thems hate Jeremy Hunt with a passion, mostly because of the lies he has repeatedly said abou their jobs- I wouldnt be surprised if they and nurses etc were to strike,
also friends with a few police and they range from apathetic, to apoplectic with the government- remarkable to see one of my most right-wing uni mates now retweeting Corbyn stuff!
Could I just ask the public sector workers - who there seem to be a few on here - do you think that there's any appetite for strikes or other industrial action?
Not me, but there's zero chance my wife would strike, not because she doesn't believe in it, but because she cares about the people she cares for. She primarily treats people in their homes in the last weeks / days of their lives to ensure they're as comfortable and pain free as possible. There wouldn't be nearly enough agency nurses who have enough experience to cover them.
Could I just ask the public sector workers - who there seem to be a few on here - do you think that there's any appetite for strikes or other industrial action?
Personally, no. I'd never strike but that's just my viewpoint.
From speaking to colleagues the past few days there's definitely a feeling from a lot of them that striking is the only way they will get anywhere with disputes regarding wages.
Strangely enough though one guy I work with was involved in the ambulance service dispute in the 80's and was on strike for the best part of 6 months. As far as he's concerned any strikes like they're talking about now would be pointless and a waste of time as when they went out for 6 months it didn't make any difference so a single day would be even less effective!
I recall the 1989 disputed yup dragged out for 6 months with little result, the workload was vastly different then a huge amount of lives would be put at risk now compared to then.
So if you want a pay rise, leave the office stationary where it is...
Isn't that a tautology?
Could I just ask the public sector workers - who there seem to be a few on here - do you think that there's any appetite for strikes or other industrial action?
We've been out six times already since 2010. 5% increase in hours, 0% pay rises and worsened conditions/pensions will do that.
We have a working time agreement it was always a basis that give and take worked from.
Some senior idiot forced the whole staff in for 3hrs last evening (when volunteers would have covered it) quoting the wta. They are about to find a lot of good will has gone and wta works two ways.