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Annual (inflation) rise?

96 replies

Charcol · 06/02/2023 19:26

I assume most jobs get an annual increase, to help reduce the risk of inflation.
In the past these have tended to be 1-2%, as inflation was low.
Now with inflation at circa 10%, are you expecting or been told what you will be getting. 10% would be great obviously, but something tells me most of us wont get anywhere near. - Hence all the striking we are currently seeing across the country.

None the less, wondered what people were getting / expecting ?

I am in manufacturing... and unions are currently fighting it out. hopefully for circa 7%. Which would be good.

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Mammyloveswine · 06/02/2023 23:27

thestealthwee · 06/02/2023 19:45

Construction services and I got 6%

That's why I don't support strikes. Private sector doesn't pay inflation level pay rises so why should public sector - especially train drivers - they've had above inflation rises for years

Public sector haven't had any rise for years...hence why we are striking because we have actually lost money in real terms...

Fleabigg · 06/02/2023 23:27

Anothernameanother · 06/02/2023 23:25

Only if their schools follow the Burgundy book. All local authority schools do, but acadamies and independents can choose whether to follow or not.

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Ah yes, good point.

gemloving · 06/02/2023 23:30

4.9% last year, I'll know next month what we're getting this year. I assume about the same.

Shadowboy · 07/02/2023 05:46

@Anothernameanother nope. The 5% hasn’t been paid yet while the unions and government argue it out. I teach in a sixth form college and they don’t have to pay it anyway. Even if the unions accept it. Academies don’t have to pay it either- there’s an assumption all teachers are paid the same but it’s not true.

FabbyDab · 07/02/2023 06:43

Private sector, I got 5%.

FredaFox · 07/02/2023 06:51

Private sector usually get nothing or 1-2%

AvocadoPlant · 07/02/2023 06:59

Private sector, nothing for the last 3 years,
changed jobs in November, not expecting any pay increase thus year as I work for a sports NGB.

Strawberry0909 · 07/02/2023 07:04

Private sector some of us are getting 5%, others upto 8% depending on which bit if the business you work for

hettiethehare · 07/02/2023 07:07

Richvanilla · 06/02/2023 19:50

No, I don't expect a 10% pay rise this year. I'm in the private sector and seen 3 significant rounds of redundancies in the past 5 years and would rather avoid the need for more in the future. Sometimes I think people don't realise that a 10% increase for them might total £3000 for example, but for a large business that can increase the payroll by MILLIONS. That's several millions extra taken off the bottom line which increases the risk for a reduced workforce... guess it would depend on what profit the company had reported... I would feel very differently if I worked at say, Shell for example.

It also works both ways, if (and I appreciate it's unlikely) gas and electric prices, petrol, mortgages etc all drop, will you be willing to give your 10% back? Of course you wouldn't. Business are also dealing with increased costs in gas, electric, rent, materials etc.

DH and I have both been in exactly this position over the years - pay rises followed not too long after by redundancies.

Neither of us have had anything this year - DH has only just started a new job and got over the advertised salary as they were keen to have him so not really a surprise not to get an increase. My company is only just breaking even at the moment.

Zippy1510 · 07/02/2023 07:09

1.5% university lecturer

Passthecake30 · 07/02/2023 07:15

Public sector, also got the £1,950 which was about 4% for me, at least twice the normal.

OntarioBagnet · 07/02/2023 07:19

University lecturer, I think I got 3% last year. They’ve said it will be 5% this year

SquigglePigs · 07/02/2023 07:19

We had ours in September. Private sector. I got 4.5%. It was done on a sliding scale so more senior staff got 4% and more junior staff got up to 6%.

LittleBearPad · 07/02/2023 07:22

Shadowboy · 07/02/2023 05:46

@Anothernameanother nope. The 5% hasn’t been paid yet while the unions and government argue it out. I teach in a sixth form college and they don’t have to pay it anyway. Even if the unions accept it. Academies don’t have to pay it either- there’s an assumption all teachers are paid the same but it’s not true.

It has, at least in certain schools

Cosycover · 07/02/2023 07:23

I didn't get any!

Grumpybutfunny · 07/02/2023 07:24

It's a hard comparison to make tho as the ones striking are educated professionals some with multiple degrees. Standard for the same level of job in industry seems to be a one off bonus of X% as either a yearly bonus or cost of living bonus. This seems the best way as if inflation falls and we go into a recession they don't have to pay it next year.

You also have the added complication that the majority of these posts are run under a government monopoly, so it's almost impossible to move side ways for more money. I'd be interested to hear what private school teachers have got in comparison to state.

We are NHS staff, over the last 15 years since agenda for change was introduced my pay has fallen by nearly 15%. We have a side hussle which we have risen prices by inflation + costs.

JustFrustrated · 07/02/2023 07:25

In my last job, where I was for over 5 years.

We never had a payrise.

We occasionally got £500 pay rise. I started on 18.5k and left on 20k. Private sector

In my current job I expected nothing, because I'm due one at the end of the year but got 4%. Which really surprised me, I know my sector is hit really really hard by energy costs and Covid lock down really hurt our margins due to importing the main product to make what we make.

My DH will get nothing. He's also private.

My best friend got 17% though, so swings and roundabout.

The people I know in the public sector, e.g. MIL, FIL, DM and aunt all got decent pay rises. DM got 8%.

Sotiredmjmmy · 07/02/2023 07:30

10% at end of last year, and a lot of market research was done which revealed that the particular sector was averaging 10%. Doubt it will be anywhere as high when review comes around again this year

Curriedpeanuts · 07/02/2023 07:39

Public sector. We had 2% in 2022, nothing in 2021, and if I remember right it was around 2% in 2020. Many years of no rises before that.

There are no performance or length of service based pay increases like there are in other public sector jobs either, everyone stays on the minimum wage for their band and just gets a one off 'bonus' of ~£700 net if they exceeded themselves the previous year... obviously once you have done that a couple of times your performance just becomes what they expect from you, so that stops.

No idea what this year will bring, there are loads of empty posts as people have left for private sector, and Treasury won't budge.

Fizbosshoes · 07/02/2023 07:39

Private sector . I don't get a payrise every year, and the last one was 5% the year before last

Nottodaty · 07/02/2023 07:40

Last few years either nothing or 1-2.5%. I know if I left I probably would get a better paid job but currently the flexibility & hours work for me.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 07/02/2023 07:45

Public sector - infrastructure - 0.5%, I think it was 1.5% last year, and nothing most years for the last 14 years apart from 2018, which was 1.5%.

Cupcakequeen75 · 07/02/2023 07:57

We got a flat rate increase which was worth over 8-9% to the lower paid in our organisation but to us it was only about 3%.

Suited the Union, they had been clamouring for flat rate increases for years as they think it is unfair that people on a higher salary get a higher (£) increase.
They miss the point that with this system the higher paid are having their buying power eroded and (long term) their salary is going down.

Fizbosshoes · 07/02/2023 07:58

Obviously within the private sector there is far more variance so , like with many public sector workers, a lot of people have had small or no pay rises but (unlike the public sector) some industries have above inflation rate rises and large bonuses. So the average for private sector is higher - rather than all private sector workers get a better payrise than all public sector workers.

ZenNudist · 07/02/2023 07:58

I can't tell you what % we get in finance/ professional services but I know its not inflation linked because they made a big deal of not being able to raise salaries that high. I'd really rather more people than higher salaries as we have been so overworked.

I actually got 13.5% but that's a correction to my salary as I have been underpaid for my role. If I and others are getting that there will definitely be people on about 3,% bringing the average down.