{"id":67807,"date":"2023-02-14T08:18:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T08:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=67807"},"modified":"2023-02-14T08:18:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T08:18:45","slug":"the-govermments-pay-offers-are-well-below-market-average-because-they-are-trying-to-destroy-public-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/02\/14\/the-govermments-pay-offers-are-well-below-market-average-because-they-are-trying-to-destroy-public-services\/","title":{"rendered":"The govermment&#8217;s pay offers are well below market average &#8211; because they are trying to destroy public services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/employmentandlabourmarket\/peopleinwork\/earningsandworkinghours\/bulletins\/earningsandemploymentfrompayasyouearnrealtimeinformationuk\/february2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ONS published a lot of pay data<\/a> this morning. The chart I found most interesting was this one:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-67808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-14-at-08.13.25-550x453.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-14-at-08.13.25-550x453.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-14-at-08.13.25-364x300.png 364w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-14-at-08.13.25-768x633.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-14-at-08.13.25-485x400.png 485w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-14-at-08.13.25.png 1070w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Median pay growth has exceeded 5% for well over a year. Unless you are in the public sector, of course. Then this is apparently impossible to pay.<\/p>\n<p>The deliberate choice being made by the government to prevent the payment of market-matching pay settlements in the public sector is only rational if you realise that their aim is twofold. One is to force people out of public sector employment because they can no longer afford to work in it. The second is to destroy those services. I cannot fund another explanation for such stupidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ONS published a lot of pay data this morning. The chart I found most interesting was this one: Median pay growth has exceeded 5%<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/02\/14\/the-govermments-pay-offers-are-well-below-market-average-because-they-are-trying-to-destroy-public-services\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,14,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-corruption","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}