Doctors, teachers and police officers are among the public sector workers who have fallen farthest down the UK earnings distribution in the past 15 years, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said on Friday.
The think-tank said its findings, published ahead of next month’s Budget, suggested that future public sector pay deals should be tilted towards higher-paid professions for which recruitment and retention was now hardest.
In 2007, typical hourly pay for doctors put them in the top 5 per cent of UK employees — a position they had held for the previous three decades. By 2023, they barely made it into the top 10 per cent.
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