A nation divided: Britain is no longer split by class. Instead the social chasm is between taxpayers and the public sector

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Mon, 04/04/2011 - 10:36am

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The Daily Mail reports on the finding from Policy Exchange report Controlling Public Spending: Pay, Staffing and Conditions in the Public Sector that by 2009 public sector workers were making 29% more than their private sector counterparts.

"In 1997, median public sector salaries were already 2.5 per cent higher than those in business and industry. By 2009, thanks to Mr Brown’s largesse, that premium had increased to 12.5 per cent.

Calculated on an hourly basis, the independent think-tank Policy Exchange reckons public sector workers get 29 per cent more than their private sector counterparts."

Read the report Controlling Public Spending: Pay, Staffing and Conditions in the Public Sector

http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/news/news.cgi?id=1975

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