Since August 2008, private sector wages have grown by 6.8%. During that same time, when government income has been drastically cut, public sector wages have risen a staggering 12.2%, nearly double the rate of growth of private sector wages.
I'm going to have to guess that a significant portion of the 40% who said they were doing alright are in the public sector.
I'm going to have to guess that a significant portion of the 40% who said they were doing alright are in the public sector.
Maybe, maybe not. These figures are tempered by the public sector job cuts in the last year - 7% of the entire public sector workforce - as part of the Cameron government's budget cuts. The effect of these cuts would be to raise the average salary even without any increases in individual pay, since the most recent recruits (and therefore the lowest paid) are usually sacked first.
“Still trying to find the proper figure for the percentage of Britains directly or indirectly employed by the government,”
Here you go:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/nov/21/public-sector-employment-uk-map
The trend is now heavily downward since labour left office. . . . .