Civil service - pay rise?

[Mamabear256]

I work for the civil service and have done since last July. I’m not sure how it works with pay rises and feel awkward asking anybody at work. I am grade O (EO). I know there was a pay freeze for a while, but then last year there was a pay rise. Will we be getting one this year? Department is HMRC if that helps

Ask your manager to explain the system to you

The pay remit is usually announced around now but you won’t get paid the pay rise until at least September usually

So there will be a pay rise then?

Yes but don’t expect much. I think Hmrc got about 4% last year plus the one off bonus. Don’t think that will happen again this year

Well the rise is anyones guess but I wouldnt expect more than a couple of %.

The pay review date is 1st June. As mentioned by a previous poster, the pay remit/budget isn't out yet but once it's available, negotiations with the unions start and usually the outcome is known September roughly then the pay rise is backdated to June and last year I think it was paid in October. (Also HMRC).

Ah right makes sense , thanks!

who knows? if you work for the civil service, what the government recommends as a pay rise and what you actually get are 2 different things. pay rises usually happen in september.

There plenty on the intranet about pay. Good pension site too.

I have tried to have a look but could only find info in relation to bands AA and AO pay increases due to the increase in national living wage

OP do talk to your colleagues and manager, it’s not a stupid question at all, and there is more information available than that on the intranet so you could do with digging around and figuring out how to find things like that.

My last pay rise in the HO was 2.9% 🙄🙄🙄

Usually the cabinet office publish some pay guidance around now - we are still waiting. The departments then negotiate with the unions, the unions then ask their members to vote on whether they accept. they all inevitably don't but the department does what they want anyway and puts the pay rise in place. This is usually back dated to the date a pay rise was meant to be given (this will vary from department to department). usually paid in either sept or october's payslips

I doubt that in an election year it will be more than a couple of percent.

We get one most years in my dept, but it’s not much. So I wouldn’t be holding out much hope. It’s normally always contested by the Union so late in the year by the time we get it (they will backdate it to the date it was agreed)

Trust me that’s decent compared to many years, especially the big fat zero years

@Zanatdy, Yep, I'm 2 years away from my long service award aka £150 worth of Eden Red vouchers.

i thought they got rid of those?