Public Sector Pay & Pensions - Time For Reality?

Faust

But they aren't lower paid!

Reality Check: Is public sector pay higher than private?

rustybin

A poorer return that is higher than pretty much any private sector equivalent.

Please find any private sector administrators job that offers a pension that good.

rustybin

When I was public sector, the job I had plus the responsibility, and I do mean serious responsibility would have netted me a salary almost two thirds higher for a comparable job in the private sector, hence I took one.

Faust

You take a good read of those examples - if you think they are generous then you and me have a totally different concept of 'generous'.

Ruperts slippers

So to complete the circle we're going round in, why would you (or anyone else) choose to work in the private sector when wages and pensions are better in the public sector?

Faust

And just as my salary represents the whole private sector, I'm sure yours represents the whole public sector....

Faust

Obviously.

But my challenge stands. Please find a comparable private sector job with a better pension scheme.

Rasczak

I can only give my personal example.

My particular skills and experience mean that I could only be utilised by any public sector employer for a shorter period. After I'd completed what I'm good at, they'd have to find work for me which I would be over-qualified for.

And worth pointing out that in the past it was the case that the public sector got lower wages but better benefits. This was a reasonable trade-off.

The situation began to change under the previous labour government.

Do you actually dispute the figures? Are you saying that BBC fact check and others are wrong? On what basis?

IronGiant

In the basis that we're comparing apples and pears. There is no real direct comparison, and where there is, there's swings and roundabouts at play.

Rasczak

The question should really be 'find a comparable job'.  Many public sector jobs are simply not replicated in the private sector.  That's why many who are made redundant from the public sector can struggle to find work in the private sector simply because their work was specialised.