Deal or no deal
Have public sector workers had a worse deal in recent years than private sector ones?
– Between 2007 and last year mean public sector pay declined by 0.9% in real terms, while mean private sector pay rose by 4%. However, for most of that time public sector workers were ahead of private sector ones.
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