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According to ONS statistics published in September, the average weekly salary for public sector workers in April last year was £539, compared with £465 in the private sector.


So not only do public sector workers on average enjoy better conditions and receive better pensions than their private sector counterparts, they are also better paid.


There are now around 20,000 public workers in the top one per cent earners with a salary in excess of £117,523, 4,000 of whom are managers. Most of the rest are NHS medical professionals.


Average circulation for the period 1/8/09 – 31/12/09 is 7,041 per issue


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Over the past decade, the top one per cent of earners have seen their incomes grow much faster than other earners, even relatively high earners.


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Executive pay, in much of the public sector, as well as the private sector, has been rising faster than the pay of median and low earners, creating greater pay dispersion within organisations over the past decade.


nce, public sector employees enjoyed better conditions and


received better pensions than their private sector counterparts to compensate for the fact that, on the whole, they were not as well paid.


The disparity is far greater in the private sector than in the public sector. The average pay ratio between the chief executive of most public sector organisations and the lowest paid member of staff is below 12:1. By comparison, pay for median FTSE 100 chief executives is 88 times the UK.


Whilst the Hutton fair pay review is ostensibly concerned with fairness and with pay levels and rewards across the private and public sectors, a business is accountable to its owners or shareholders - who could legitimately argue that it is nobody’s business but theirs how much they pay their employees. The public sector is, however, accountable to the taxpayer.


The number of public sector workers has increased by almost 20% to more than six million, just over a fifth of the workforce since Labour came to power.


The government is keen to roll back the state and with a labour market which is in such a depressed state that, according to a survey of 1,600 state workers in The Times, two thirds of public sector staff would be prepared to take home less pay if it meant avoiding being sacked (of whom one in six said they would stomach a 10pc pay cut if it meant keeping their jobs), the portents for public sector pay are not good.


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