The Chancellor, George Osbourne has announced that Local Government will have to make a further 40% cut in budgets over the next few years and has also limited public sector pay increases to 1% a year. At the same time Private Sector workers are now enjoying an average of 3.3% pay rises according to Labour Research. In fact average pay in the Private Sector rose by 5.6% in March 2015 alone.
Labour Research also gives the full-time average weekly earnings of workers by occupation – how are you doing?
| All workers | £636.90 | Administrative & Secretarial | £463.40 |
| All male | £691.20 | Skilled/craft | £537.30 |
| All female | £553.80 | Services (Care workers etc) | £371.30 |
| Managers | £997.60 | Sales | £380.90 |
| Professionals | £812.60 | Operatives | £494.00 |
| Associate professionals (nurses etc) | £688.70 | Other manual jobs | £376.60 |
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