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Its almost is if they were the only ones. 
I mean, its not like my pay rises have also been pathetic ...... oh wait, they have.  |
That's not an argument for not at least matching inflation in the public sector. Maybe if the public sector wasn't bad so badly then the private sector would need to follow suit.
Incidentally, the private sector did see much better increases than the public one:
https://ifs.org.uk/publications/rece...%20by%200.3%25.
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These recent trends come on top of poor earnings performance in both sectors since 2007. Real public sector pay at the end of 2023 was still 1% lower than its level at the beginning of 2007. Real private sector pay increased by 4% from 2007 to 2023
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Over 10 years it's even worse for those in the NHS:
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Within the public sector, some high-profile professions (nurses, and particularly teachers and hospital doctors) have seen considerably worse pay growth than the average public sector worker. Indeed,teachers saw large reductions in average real pay from 2010 to 2019 (falling 13%) but have seen stronger pay growth since then (with pay 5% higher in September 2023 than in April 2019 after accounting for the pay deals agreed last summer). Overall, this still leaves average teachers’ pay in September 2023 9% lower than in 2010.
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As I said before how long did everyone really think this could last?