Public Sector Pay Freeze

[Lagarde's Drift]

which - depending on exactly where in London this guy is teaching - makes your own estimate of 23k somewhat unlikely

OK, so I forgot that the OP's mate lives and works in London. Now that you mention it, that just makes everything even worse.

Edit: Did he actually mention London. DUnno, I'm going to bed.

Edited June 29, 2010 by Cash with Nowhere to Go

[.:Nova:.]

From the Health Service Journal (HSJ)

George Osborne’s emergency budget last week announced a “two year freeze” for public sector pay, excluding the 1.7 million earning less than £21,000.

Assuming pay increases would otherwise be around 2 per cent a year, the freeze saves the NHS around £1.6bn over two years.

But the Department of Health has told HSJ the “freeze” will not apply to agenda for change increments. A DH spokeswoman said although each incremental step in the pay bands would be frozen, staff would still progress through their steps as usual.

That will mean a nurse at the bottom of pay band 5 on £21,176 this year will still expect to progress to the next step at £21,798 next April – increasing their pay by 2.9 per cent.

[RichB]

I thought it would be interesting to post what my local council lists in its directory so you get some scale of what we are often by law required to do.

• Abandoned vehicles
• Abnormal loads (road transport)
• Access for disabled people

Or:

Transport, Waste & Infrastructure

Social Services, Housing & Employment

Health & Education

Legal & Law Enforcement

Leisure & Culture

I know its less impressive, but surely that pretty much covers it?

[Guest absolutezero]

From the Health Service Journal (HSJ)

There is a difference between pay rises and scale increments.

[cockrobin]

There is a difference between pay rises and scale increments.

Even if the scaled increments result in pay rises?

[dissident junk]

I know a couple, one Head of Year and one Head of Department, at a local inner London Comprehensive and they are on about a total of £75K household income.

They are, however, each in their mid thirties, and went straight into their school on the Graduate Training Scheme some seven years or more ago.