Poll: Pay rise 2022

What do you expect as a pay rise this year?

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GhostWKD said:
Ah yes the chap that is paid £495k a year telling us to not seek pay rises to try and ease the painful cost of living increase that’s coming…

Fully expecting the standard sub 1% pay rise unless I move jobs over here mind
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I think the whole point is that we have to pay for covid and that’s going to be with a worse standard of living. If everyone gets pay rises inflation will get worse. We can’t shut the country down for a year and stay at home and not pay for it.
 
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Public sector now, not expecting any increase (Tbf not sure how progression within a pay band actually works, but as I only recently joined don't think I'll be eligible for until next year).

Looking back at historic pay for each grade it hasn't kept up with inflation between 2015 and 2021, definitely not expecting it to this year either :p

Probably goes some way to explaining why half of the team I've joined seem to have left in the past year. The upside is that they were keen to recruit, which probably gave me a better chance to get in, as it's a career change for me so didn't have any relevant experience.
 
inferno said:
I think the whole point is that we have to pay for covid and that’s going to be with a worse standard of living. If everyone gets pay rises inflation will get worse. We can’t shut the country down for a year and stay at home and not pay for it.
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The impact of no pay increases will disproportionately hit people on salaries though, particularly those on average salaries. The logic about it making inflation worse only really applies to domestically produced goods and services, and ignores impact from imported goods and services, which will get more expensive even if we reduced pay due to the weakening pound and better living standards in the third world.

Attempting to prevent pay rises just means that expertise will bleed out from the bodies that aren't raising pay, into bodies that are (eg consultancies etc), while those who can't / don't move to a better paying job get shafted. Meanwhile the super-rich get more and more wealthy.
 
inferno said:
I think the whole point is that we have to pay for covid and that’s going to be with a worse standard of living. If everyone gets pay rises inflation will get worse. We can’t shut the country down for a year and stay at home and not pay for it.
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It's easy to say that when you earn more than double in a month than many people earn in a year.

The "average" utility bill at the price cap is now ~12% of full time minimum wage, never mind the increases in food and petrol prices. You can't really be surprised that people are a bit ****** off at some guy who's biggest money worry is choosing whether to go for the 40 or 50ft yacht telling them not to ask for enough money to keep their kids warm and fed.
 
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I believe that anyone changing jobs this year would likely get a larger than 10% increase in their salary. The 'disloyalty bonus' is a very real thing.
 
Potentially 10% to make up for not having one since 2018 and working all the way through the pandemic with no time off apart from using my floating days.
 
I have a public sector pension so will get the cpi rate increase from April.

My wife works in the public sector so I don't think she will get much and it will feel like slap in the face. Wouldn't be surprised if it's 1% plus a 1% non pensionable bonus like a few years back.
 
On the basis I got 16.6% last year and 10% the year before, I am hoping its double digits again this year.

The "workers" have had theirs early and depending which department they were in, they got between 8 and 12%
 
Already had ours it fell into the 2-3.99%, ignoring my fixed yearly increase which I get in my first 5 years of my band. With that it was closer to 10%.
 
GreatAuk said:
Public sector now, not expecting any increase (Tbf not sure how progression within a pay band actually works, but as I only recently joined don't think I'll be eligible for until next year).

Looking back at historic pay for each grade it hasn't kept up with inflation between 2015 and 2021, definitely not expecting it to this year either :p

Probably goes some way to explaining why half of the team I've joined seem to have left in the past year. The upside is that they were keen to recruit, which probably gave me a better chance to get in, as it's a career change for me so didn't have any relevant experience.
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Public Sector Pay just gets nuked in real terms year on year my friend (ive worked over 20 years in public Sector) regardless of in band pay increase (which basicaly helped vs inflation rather than reward for progression) and/or any inflation pay increases. Then factor in the the recently negotiated screw over on in band pay increase no longer being yearly but instead either every other year, 3 years & 5 years depending on band. So another element to the compound paycut.

Public Sector Pay has been a pay cut / compound pay cut for the last 18 years minimum just from my experience. Ever since post agenda for change pay re-structure in the NHS anyway. The only thing that keeps people here half the time is the pension, and then gets rear ended every now and then also. Its been made worse 3 times in my time so far.
 
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