15th-Oct-19, 07:41 PM
You're quite right that any figures like that can be a 'broad brush' and hide a lot of complexity. However, your original statement was a pretty broad generalisation too!
Interestingly, if you dig deeper into those documents and the research behind them, you find that the wage growth of higher-earners has suffered most since 2008, so they certainly aren't skewing the figures upwards. Of course, they were better paid in the first place, so I am sure have coped...
It's those of us on lower wages who were struggling before 2008 who have struggled even more with even the smallest drop in real wages. That's true wherever we live and whether we are private or public sector employees, self-employed or out of work.
It's not just wage growth, there's the very many people - including nearly 900,000 in the public sector - who have lost jobs with decent pay and conditions in the past ten years and are now in much more marginal employment, zero-hours contracts or exceedingly insecure self-employment.
Interestingly, if you dig deeper into those documents and the research behind them, you find that the wage growth of higher-earners has suffered most since 2008, so they certainly aren't skewing the figures upwards. Of course, they were better paid in the first place, so I am sure have coped...
It's those of us on lower wages who were struggling before 2008 who have struggled even more with even the smallest drop in real wages. That's true wherever we live and whether we are private or public sector employees, self-employed or out of work.
It's not just wage growth, there's the very many people - including nearly 900,000 in the public sector - who have lost jobs with decent pay and conditions in the past ten years and are now in much more marginal employment, zero-hours contracts or exceedingly insecure self-employment.
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