3% rise for NHS workers , is it enough?

[thecatmother]

With shame I admit, that I have hardly given a thought to how hard our NHS workers have it, or how little they earned. Last couple of years have really put it into perspective for me, pandemic and personal circumstances.
This news just popped on my phone screen, 3% is pitiful.

In comparison, I have a cousin who settled in the US and is a nurse in A&E(City hospital, so not private) and her salary is 83$k per year. And she lives a very comfortable life, compared perhaps to upper middle class here.
We celebrate our NHS and, on our side,we pay our taxes, so why is it only 3%?

And people will complain if they take away the £20 per week from universal credit in September.
We don’t have a bottomless pit of money.

@Dave20

And people will complain if they take away the £20 per week from universal credit in September. We don’t have a bottomless pit of money.

We seem to when it suits the government. £37 billion for track and trace?

We seem to when it suits the government. £37 billion for track and trace?

Exactly, we do have it, it's just allocated in the wrong places and slid out to cronies

All those selfish people complaining they won't be able to afford to eat, they should know that money is needed for a stupid royal yacht even the Queen doesn't want!

When the Agenda for Change was agreed it was agreed that the top pay of a band is what a professional of that level should be paid, but the government chose to put in an incremental payscale taking money away for "inexperience". So although nurses and other NHS workers have a pay increment each year, they are really earning back money they should always have had.

Wow I didn't know that. I'm at the bottom of my band so really I should be at the top 🤔

@RH1234

I 100% agree the NHS has worked hard throughout the last few years, but from a business perspective (you have to remember, whether you like it or not the NHS is a business) 3% is a lot.

Bearing in mind it's an extra £3 for every £100 earned. If everyone in the NHS earned £1000 a month, that would be an additional £30 each per month.

£30 x 1.3 million employees = £39 million a month.

When you consider the current costs of the economy and that not everyone earns £1000 a month... it's a fair amount for the tax payer at the moment

You need to factor in what goes straight back to government.

On my wage slip, 40% goes straight back in income tax, another 13.8% NI and another 13.5% pension (even though my final pension amount won't increase) so HMG is getting almost £2 back immediately.

If the payrise pushes my annual pension growth above a certain threshold, then Ill probably get a tax bill for around £20-30k leaving me much worse off.

I'd much rather they sorted my pension issues out. I dont need £3k per year extra, I'd much rather 3 hcas or nurses got £1000 each.

Enough for what?