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Public / Private sector pay gap widens

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  • Andy_L
    Andy_L Posts: 13,162 Forumite
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    I can't find any source for these figures. Can you please post the link.

    Its an oldish figure
    http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/about/facts/statistics/reports

    Median gross annual earnings (excluding overtime or one-off bonuses) for all employees were £23,760 at 31 March 2011.

    The thing to remember is that the Civil Service is a small subset of the Public Sector (despite often being used as a synonym) which, unlike many other bits, does still have a lot of low-level admin drones rather than, eg, the NHS which is dominated by professionally qualified medical/scientific/technical staff
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