Nurses - the most prevalent profession in the country. Here are the payscales most will be on. Progression is dead man shoes and promotion limited by area. Note due to the coalition being dicks people don't progress up the increments and soon won't be given unsocial allowance for night and weekend duty.
Band 5
Point 16 21,478 - Post degree
Point 17 22,016
Point 18 22,903
Point 19 23,825
Point 20 24,799
Point 21 25,783
Point 22 26,822
Point 23 27,901 - Pre retirement
It is worth noting that historically nursing was a vocational qualification attained through a combination of education and practical working, not an academic one obtained exclusively through education. . The shift to degree qualified nurses was to shift the burden of training costs away from the hospitals, not because of the need for a degree or to improve the lot of nurses. Pay rates are also forced down due to monoplisation of opportunity and national pay bargaining practices, so possibly not the best example as wages are largely dictated rather than market driven.