And the gap will only get bigger year on year with pay rises being the same percentage across the board. Don't know if it's still the case, but when I was in the forces they gave differing levels of percentage pay rises from bottom of pay scale to top of scale to prevent the gap between "rich" and "poor" from expanding. So maybe this year us band 2s could get maybe 10%, and you band 5s out there could get, let's say, 0.5%.
