Bureau Recommends: Public sector salary myth

The Bureau recommends a front-page story in the Daily Mail revealing that state employees earn nearly eight percent more than their counterparts in the private sector.

The Office of National Statistics compared workers who do the same job, are the same age and sex and live in the same region. They found state workers are an average 7.8 percent better paid.

The research did not account for public sector pensions, which experts say adds a further 25 to 30 percent to public sector workers’ earnings, the paper reports.

Last year the Bureau exposed for the first time the high number of public sector top earners.

In the most detailed analysis of government salaries ever undertaken, the Bureau and the BBC’s Panorama showed that more than 38,000 government workers are paid over £100,000, and 9,187 earn more than the Prime Minister (£142,500).

Public sector unions rejected the Office of National Statistics findings as flawed, the Daily Mail reports.

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