The King has got an 125 million pay rise funded by us

[Evieanne]

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/20/king-charles-to-receive-huge-pay-rise-from-uk-taxpayers

But those of us in the public and third sector who save lives can’t have a decent pay rise?

Boils my blood

Not to mention the last pay rise we got they just took it back in tax!!

If people dont like the royals they should gave the option to pay less tax.

If they like them they should pay a bit extra.

The tax will guarantee you get a day off on codonation day.

Except for those of us who work in health and social care, we have to work bank holidays so we don’t get a day off

Thinking what that money could do for people in poverty makes me feel sick.

Except he only gets 25% of the profit brought in and that is shared by the royal family. 75% goes back into the state. The royal family have brought in an additional 200/300 million in the last year with expected profits of over 1 billion so not exactly a great pay rise

Its not a £125m payrise, it's £38.5m.

The govt still keeps most of the money from the crown estate.

It hardly means he's got to start shopping in aldi, does it? Whatever it is, the entire family won't be affected. They will continue living a life of financial security most of us could ever even imagine

Your OP is a bit misleading though - he’s not being given that money - he’s being allowed to recoup it from Crown Estates profits.

Crown Estates is due to make billions over the next few years due to the sale of seabed leases for wind farms.

The real issue is why when the % the royals recoup was renegotiated in light of the additional obscene profits that it wasn’t set at something that would give a rise similar to what other public servants are getting.

Why should they get 12% of profits when that equates to a 45% rise compared to previous years. It should’ve been set at whatever % gave them a 5% rise surely?

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/sovereign-grant-changed-after-crown-estate-sees-profits-surge-12924156

Totally agree with this, it should be optional with the Royals either getting paid an amount depending on their popularity (so tax stays the same for people who opt in but the royals get paid less when people opt out) or the tax royalist pay rising as people opt out to keep kingy with the sake massive salary and leaving them to question just how much they think he's really worth

You'd be given an extra day off as holiday under my regime to be used at a later date.

Who? If you didn't notice, the shops, healthcare, hairdressers, taxis, call centres, delivery people, warehouses etc etc didn't get a day off and no they didn't necessarily get a day in lieu.

A mere £38.5M? How will he cope ...

Can you substantiate that claim that they bought in all that money? Where is the source?

If the money they get has risen doesn’t that mean the remainder that goes in the public coffers has also risen?

Google the Sovereign Grant and the Crown Estate.

Its not about "only" £38.5m (I don't think anyone would argue that it's a hell of a lot of money), it's about the OP lying that it's three times that.

The poor dear will have to send his butler to Aldi :)