{"id":6351,"date":"2025-11-07T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=6351"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:58:29","slug":"public-sector-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=6351","title":{"rendered":"Public Sector Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The highly regarded Institute of Fiscal Studies is a wealth of information:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ifs.org.uk\/publications\/pressures-public-sector-pay\">Pressures on public sector pay | Institute for Fiscal Studies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong><em>The public sector employs 5.9 million people in the UK, at an annual cost of \u00a3270 billion in 2023\u201324 (including salaries, employer pension contributions and employer National Insurance contributions)&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;10% of national income and 22% of total UK government spending. The employment, pay and productivity of these employees are therefore an important determinant of the material standard of living of millions of families, as well as a crucial input into the provision of public services. Public sector pay growth is an important pressure on public spending<\/em><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1024x441.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1024x441.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-768x331.png 768w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-624x269.png 624w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image.png 1095w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highly regarded Institute of Fiscal Studies is a wealth of information:- Pressures on public sector pay | Institute for Fiscal Studies &#8220;The public sector employs 5.9 million people in the UK, at an annual cost of \u00a3270 billion in 2023\u201324 (including salaries, employer pension contributions and employer National Insurance contributions)&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;10% of national income and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6358,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions\/6358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}