Nurses to get 4.4%pay rise.

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I’ve calculated that this will equate to an extra £90 a month for me after tax.
That will cover my monthly parking fees at work then.
What’s the fucking point?

You're not happy with a 4.4% raise?

I'm not usually one to say think yourself lucky because others aren't getting a pay rise/may be losing their jobs altogether, as I think it can lead to a race to the bottom. On this though I do think you're being pretty unreasonable.

Lots of teachers won't get the advertised pay rise as it is to come 'from school budgets'. These will have already been agreed/planned without the pay rise included.

School governor here. We can’t afford to pay this rise for teachers without making someone redundant. There’s no extra funding for them.

I think this thread was created to pit everyone against each other for some reason.

I think everyone needs to remember this isn't a race to the bottom.

Nurses, teachers, carers, police officers and many many more vital jobs are underpaid.

Huge amounts has been expected from them through the pandemic with little reward.

My company have said no pay rises this year, yet I've sat and worked as normal, safe and sound from home - it doesn't compare.

We need to pushing our politicians to properly represent those important professions - the Conservatives certainly aren't going to!

I think this thread was created to pit everyone against each other for some reason.

I think you're probably right.

It’s more than I’m getting in my public sector job too. This is no disrespect you to OP or anyone else in this profession but ultimately it’s just good PR. We never get pay rises as the public don’t know what we do and wouldn’t care. (Even though we have been key in a lot of ways since March)

Nurses aren’t getting the pay rise. I’m pleased for the others that are but I would’ve been very happy with an extra £90 a month!

Ah loving the good old race to the bottom reactions here.

Plus I haven’t read the small print but I bet my bottom dollar that it isn’t as generous as it seems.

OP are you here on a wind up to get people frothing about “ungrateful” public sector workers and their “fat” pay rises?

4.4% is huge. Most people I know haven't even had a pay increase in years, let alone an inflationary one.

It isn't a race to the bottom and everyone should feel valued in their job including salary. But at a time like this where we are facing mass unemployment with very few jobs openings it is insensitive to be moaning about a pay rise meaning that you are £90 better a month.

I'd love to know what proportion of nhs staff are still receiving increments because I'd say 80% of our service are at the top of their bands having been downgraded in various reorganisations. I know it says 'many' nurses will get 4.4% but I would wager that 'most' wont. It doesn't seem fair to refer to competency based increments as a pay rise. Or to announce an 'NHS' pay rise that only Drs and dentists (who managed to opt out of the nhs pay scheme) are actually getting. I'm not sure it is even about the money, it just feels like a massive snub to nurses, AHPs and HCAs.

I'll swap your 4.4% pay rise for my 10% pay cut.

Well thats 4.4% more that I will be getting this year.

And I'm better off than thousands of people who will be getting a 100% pay cut.

Hardly sensitive in the current climate to come here whinging about a pay rise.

NURSES AREN’T INCLUDED IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY.

It applies to doctors and dentists in the NHS.

The pay ‘rise’ mentioned is year 3 of the previous deal for nurses. Only a very small proportion of nurses received this rise and that was due to some annual incremental pay points being removed. Most of us got 1% after almost a decade of nowt.

It's so insensitive of NHS workers who pretty much have a guaranteed job for life plus excellent Ts and Cs, to be moaning when people are being made redundant left right and centre.

OP, you got clapped every Thursday. What more do you want??

Sarcasm, if it's not clear. You have my sympathy.

What bites is that the 4.4% pay rise was agreed prior to the pandemic

There will be no pay rise as thanks for working through the pandemic

So the public sector pay pay freeze to bail out the bankers amounts to a real-terms works out as a 36.4% pay-cut from 2007-2018, so, there's still a fair way to go until doctors, nurses and other public sector workers are back on economic parity with 13-years ago...

...And that's not even counting the increases to pension contributions, decreases in value and the punitive taxes on pension growth.

Coronavirus: Above-inflation pay rise for almost 900,000 public sector workers www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53478404

Everyone in our company has had a 20% pay cut. Blanked increases across the NHS are wrong, it should only apply to those who were genuinely front line, not receptionists, managers etc. A no teachers who wouldn't even correct the homework

I have taken a 20% wage cut in the private sector! By the end of the year I will probably have no job. Difficult to be sympathetic I'm afraid.

I’d swap your minuscule pay rise for my job loss. How ungrateful.

While I believe nurses should get more money, in the current circumstances I wouldn't be complaining about 4.4% when so many other people have lost their jobs.

In my last job we were offered 1% the year I left, and we got nothing at all for a couple of years.

4.4% is a good payrise, I don't see the problem. If you don't want it I'm sure you can refuse it OP.