Have you had a pay rise this year?

[TravellingSpoon]

All this talk of inflation, public sector pay rises etc has me thinking.

I wonder how many of us in the private sector have had pay rises, and is so, how much?

I have a public sector job as well as a private sector one. In my private sector job (Social Care) we got 21p an hour pay rise.

I am not in UK so we are in negotiations but haven't yet any sign of agreement on a public sector pay rise.

So my increase was to go to the next pay scale. I haven't had an increment for a few years.

Private sector, 6.1% in April

Private sector DH wasn't going to get any payrise for two years in a row due to covid/inflation pressures on his industry. He's moved companies this year in a sideways move and got a 32% rise.

Generally I don't think these comparisons work. I'm nurse and DH works in the private sector. When we met at 22 I earned more than him and now he's on more than double my senior nurse wage. We're both graduates of vocational degrees from former polytechnic unis.

Nurses can get between 7-15k more in the private sector (plus welcome bonus), or £££££ more by working for an agency.

I think the comparison is hard between public and private. In public sector, you can't just join a competitor and get a payrise because of the national wage negotiations and payscales. So yes I get incremental increases year or year but my DH in the private sector can just move company and negotiate a higher starting wage.

Jeez. I was somehow under the (obviously very naive!) impression that public sector workers just didn't really get payrises. I've spent the last couple of years years feeling guilty for my 2%ish NHS payrises. I'm stunned. Some of you don't half do alright!

5% pay rise.
Car allowance increase.
£1000 cost of living bonus (spread over 6 months).

Self employed and despite raising my prices, I've actually taken a 50% pay cut compared to my 2019 earnings and I've had to take on two other jobs 😭 after a 70% cut in earnings last year wiped out my savings. To be quite honest, I would just be grateful to have a job with regular pay.

On minimum wage originally, then got promoted, which meant a huge amount of responsibility and work crammed into the same number of hours. Got a pay rise for it though......26p per hour more.
Yes, you did read that right, 26p per hour more!

Fixed pay scales - does that mean you never get a pay rise?

Fixed pay scales means you only get the negotiated cost of living rise. You are st the top point of your pay scale so don't go up a grade any more.

10%, so £10 to £11, waged staff only as a priority due to cost of living, pay being below local competitors, and recruitment difficulties. Salaried staff had a lower percentage payrise.

Yes. 3.2%

4% as a standard raise, wasn’t there long enough to qualify for the performance one.

I work in a heavily unionised environment, so we all benefit from those agreed T&Cs even if not part of the union.

Private sector 4%, but we had a pay freeze for the previous 2 years

I receive £1.99 an hour as a carer

No you don't.

No not yet it’s still being negotiated and it’s not looking like we’ll get anywhere near the cost of living. Meanwhile the bulk of my workload at present is preparation for balloting our members for industrial action. Go figure 🙄

I got 7% in December last year. Hoping for an equivalent plus small bonus this December.

my DH got a 19% pay rise and 20% bonus.

Private sector 2%, I’ve had a 2% every year for the last few years so no massive jumps and a pay freeze a few years ago. This is a massive FTSE100 company

I have two jobs, one public and one private. Private has given us a 5.5% pay rise, which I was totally surprised about as there have been three lots of redundancies in last couple of years. Waiting to hear on public sector job.

DH is public sector and should be covered by the recent announcement. However, he was told months ago his department wouldn't be covered this year by any public sector pay rise, so he's getting nothing.

Voluntary sector 3.5%

Private selector but publicly funded. No pay rise for 2 years

Yes in April mine went from £9 to £10 per hour, the biggest raise I've ever had and more than I expected (usually it's a few pence above minimum wage but a new company takeover meant a new and fairer pay structure.)

I've been fortunate to have had two. A long overdue role rebanding one in January (that had taken over 2 years to complete) and a mid year performance one in February - combined they were relatively significant in comparison to the usual annual rises.

Our normal annual cost of living/performance increase isn't until September. We have been given a £1k (- minus tax) cost of living support payment, so I expect we won't get more than our usual 2-3% as a cost of living rise as the support payment will be to give them time to consider their options.

Civil service 1.8%. I’m actually now earning £20 month less than this time last year due to the tax increase. The “rise” will amount to around £32 a month. So I,ll be £12 a month up on last year. I’m going to vote to strike.