Left my very well paid job earlier in the year and have started up on my own; can give myself any sort of pay rise I like ... and then when I start making some money I could actually pay myself some of it! As I am earning, currently, about 10% of what I had previously fairly keen to do well in the pay rise / income stakes in the coming months!
Basically we have had a large voluntary redundancy scheme and the employer wanted to get rid of some staff before giving the pay rise to the remaining staff.
Love it how the government ask employers to show pay restraint and yet the public sector pay rises (given the evidence on here) seem to continue?
No doubt civil servants everywhere are now smashing a response into their keyboards (** could I just remind you that whilst you are doing that my taxes are paying your wages)
** For those of an agressive or unstable disposition this is a flippant comment designed to create an irrational response, known on NSC as fishing)
a big fat zilch - indeeed I estimate that the combination of my pension and earnings from self employment has probably fallen by around 20% in the last couple of years
I should return to public sector employment but I'm enjoying myself too much