Salaries, then and now

[wellinghall]

Prime Minister: 1993 £76,234; 2008 £191,064; 151% increase; 6.3% pa
MP: 1993 £30,854; 2008 £61,820; 100% increase; 4.7% pa

Permanent secretary: 1993 £82,925; 2008 £139,740; 69% increase; 3.5% pa
Judge on Queen's Bench: 1993 £90,148; 2008 £170,200; 89% increase; 4.3% pa

General: 1993 £90,148; 2008 £154,700; 72% increase; 3.7% pa
Second Lieutenant: 1993 £12,611; 2008 £23,475; 86% increase; 4.2% pa
Private: 1993 £7,891; 2008 £16,227; 106% increase; 4.9% pa

Archbishop of Canterbury: 1993 £43,550; 2008 £68,740; 58% increase; 3.1% pa
Bishop: 1993 £23,610; 2008 £37,320; 58% increase; 3.1% pa
Parish priest: 1993 no figure given; 2008 £21,600

Head teacher: 1993 £23,505; 2008 £40,494; 72% increase; 3.7% pa
Schoolteacher: 1993 £11,224; 2008 £20,627; 84% increase; 4.1% pa

Chief constable: 1993 £56,313; 2008 £117,603; 109% increase; 5.0% pa
Police constable: 1993 £12,744; 2008 £21,534; 69% increase; 3.6% pa

Nurse: 1993 no figure given: 2008 £20,225
House Officer (junior doctor): 1993 no figure given; 2008 £21,862
Consultant (senior doctor): 1993 no figure given; 2008 £73,403

Retail Price Index: 1992 138.5; 2007 206.6; 49% increase; 2.7% pa

All figures from Whitaker's Almanacks for 1994 and 2009. Salary figures are for the bottom of any range given, and exclude any additional London weighting. Figures used for different professions may be for different points in the year, and definitions / means of measurement may have changed over the period.

Comments

[tovaglia.livejournal.com]

Am shocked at rubbish pay of head teachers!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The full range (as at September 2008, before London weighting) is £40,494 - £100,424. With London weighting, it is £47,265 - £107,192.

[lalwendeboggart.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure London weighting would apply to Permanent Secretaries as they are all based in Whitehall anyway, and few of them will be on the lowest rate for their grade (SCS Grade 1)

Maybe of interest for this is that the rate at the bottom of the pay scale for most civil service grades is not considered the 'going rate' - that would instead be the 'pay maxima', something which most people, in the age of performance related pay, never achieve as the scales are created to make that impossible.

I'm shocked at the pay of the Archbishop of Canterbury!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Senior civil service salaries from 1 April 2008

Permanent secretary £139,740 - £273,250
Band 3 £99,960 - £205,000
Band 2 £81,600 - £127,000
Band 1 £57,300 - £116,000

[lalwendeboggart.livejournal.com]

Just to show how confusing it can be, our gradings are weighted differently - the SCS in our Dept runs from Grade 7 up to Grade 1. However there are only 4 lower grades - EA to SEO, whereas in Inland Revenue for example there are many more levels of lower grades. It's weighted depending on whether the work is mostly policy or 'operational', which demands more layers.

And benefits can vary wildly between departments and agencies too - as can things like leave. DEFRA (are they still called that?) get the best of everything, whereas JobcentrePlus staff get very poor benefits compared to the tough jobs they can be doing.

Sometimes I think it's done like this on purpose to confuse the media who like to write evil stories about the civil service and their pay levels ;)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that these figures don't include benefits-in-kind. The Archbishop of Canterbury gets free rent on a flippin' palace for gawd's sake. That's gotta be worth summat.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure they don't include benefits in kind - either the palace for the archbishop and the bishops, the knighthood for the judges, the guaranteed gong for the permanent secretaries, the chance to get into nightclubs for the police ...

[lalwendeboggart.livejournal.com]

I think if I had to choose, I'd be Archbishop of York, he has the nicest palace by miles ;)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Two, I believe - Lambeth and Canterbury.

[segh.livejournal.com]

And the government has the nerve to complain that wage inequalities are increasing.
And these people have guaranteed pensions *sighs*