'Did you get a pay rise or cut in 2009?' poll discussion

potteriesgirl

I work for a charity. Just seen that someone else has written that we weren't in the list of options. We were lucky to have a 2%pa pay rise but hardly noticed it as paid under £16000 pa! Charity says may not give us anything this year (2010) but some businesses / sectors giving employees paid under £18000 something.

FATBALLZ

poppy10 wrote: »

Public sector, received annual increase as normal :dance:

Remember though we had pay deals below real inflation for many years while the private sector was surging. Many public sector workers got tied into 3-year pay deals at 2.1% p.a. - government thought they had pulled a fast one when inflation shot up to over 3%, so they can't really complain when inflation falls.

You are deluded if you think private sector workers were getting above inflation pay rises as standard during the boom. In general this only happened in the private sector for workers who get promoted or those at the top of the ladder. ground floor staff during the normal day job were in no better a situation than you.

Global_D

I work for an architectural firm and the construction industry has been hit really hard.

Jan 09 - Pay Freeze

May-Sep 09 - 3 day week (essentially a 40% pay cut for 3 1/2 months)

Sep 09 - 5 day week but @ 90% pay

Jan 10 - Pay freeze at 90% pay

glossyhair

I took a 20% reduction in hours and pay in August 2008 and still my contract was not renewed from end of April 2009. Been unemployed ever since :(

poppy10 wrote: »

Perhaps you could use your Job-Seekers Allowance to seek a job that pays more money?

You are obviously employed or you wouldn't make such a flippant remark. Finding a job ain't that easy Poppy!!!:mad::mad:

I am fully qualified in two professions and have been unable to secure a role in either . . . even for substantially less pay than I was getting before! So please don't come on here and bash people like me who have to exist on the megre JSA allowance. It's not through choice or lack of effort. :eek::eek:

I'd LOVE to have a job to go to . . .

Jennifer_Jane

I got 3.2% I think, which I would have been very grateful for had our CEO not received 9% in GB Pounds (12% in dollars). I wish he had just taken the same pay increase that he imposed on us. He's been in that role 3 years and is already a multi-millionaire in stock options!

These 'captains of industry' are so money-grubbing.

Jen

trixiebird

My wages were once again frozen last year. I have not had any kind of pay rise in almost 5 years!!
Frustrating thing was one of my collegues who had been with the company 2 years got a pay rise of 25%!!!
I have been keeping my ears open for a different job ever since but there is nothing out there so I am glad to have any kind of job even without the payrise at the moment.

JBEILBY

should have category on the poll - retired and living on private pension only - no increase for 2009 and don't expect one in 2010 either!!

Bean_Counter

I work in construction. Pay freeze for last year. Currently on short time working and on a 50% pay cut at the moment.

The construction industry is still really struggling, so definitely no recovery from the recession here.

sparrer

I'm in the same position as JBEILBY, seems everything has gone up in the past couple of years except pensions. Not surprised though, it's either the government's way of culling the 'nuisance' generation or to give the media something to report...how many thousands of olds have died each winter because they can't pay both food and fuel bills at the same time

wildthing01

i find it hard to vote on this one - i work for the public sector and technically my pay rose, as in, i earned more than i did the year before - however, given that it did not rise in line with inflation, and in fact rose less for we english employees than for employees in other uk countries, despite us all being employed by same over-arching organisation, i would actually call it a pay cut.
that doesn't bother me so much tho - what bothers me more is the budget cuts/freezes for public sector services.