Nice Try...
Like a school girl at a Spice Girls concert I just wanna jump up and scream my bloody head off!
The AOA's update letter states that the AUS B scale pay increase is 11.5 percent?
How stupid do they think we are? Yes, 3 plus 3 plus 2 plus 2 plus 1.5 does infact equal 11.5%. Congrats, you passed pre-school math. However, we all know it's a bit more complicated than that. If as an SO, you make a measly 20 in HDP, a 2% rise in HDP hardly comes close to a 2% rise in overall salary? OH by the way, it's less if you do not hit 84 hours each month.
The actually total figure, cumulative of the 2008 and 2009 steps of both scale and HDP rises, is around 8%. The AOA knows this yet decided to print a 11.5% figure.
SHAME ON YOU FOR TRYING TO FOOL YOUR OWN PEOPLE!!!!!
Numero Crunchero, were you involved with coming up with these bogus figures?