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| Subject: UK Public-private pay gap widens even further, in favour of the parasites Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:31 pm | |
| The pay gap between state and private-sector workers has ‘increased substantially’ in the past four years, Britain’s leading economic forecaster reveals today.
Despite strikes by state workers over pay and pension changes, it says the earnings of private-sector workers have ‘actually fallen faster over the last few years’.
Experts said the report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies undermines the case made by public-sector unions that state workers are the only ones being hurt by the Government’s austerity drive.
During the depths of the recession in 2009, the average public-sector worker earned £16.64 an hour, which has dropped to £15.69 per hour – a fall of 95p, according to the IFS, which adjusted the figures for inflation.
But the cuts have been even more painful for private-sector workers.
In 2009, their hourly pay was already lower at £15.15, which has now fallen £1.49 to £13.66.
Overall, the IFS said the number of workers hit by wage freezes or pay cuts is at its highest level since records began around 40 years ago.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2339953/Public-private-pay-gap-widens-Average-private-sector-earnings-fallen-faster-state-employees-recession.html
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