Count yourselves lucky you're not a police officer. Annual inflation pay freeze until Sep 13; previous annnual incremental pay rise (retention) frozen until Apr 14 - and then awarded only every 2 years; pension contributions increasing to 10.5%; and moving to career average from final salary - for all officers including those on the previous schemes. This makes the police pension sheme the most costly to contributors throughout the public sector. More than teachers, NHS staff, forces personnel firefighters etc...
Most police officers will have had no increase in annual pay for 4 years. This, when the private sector are seeing an average 3% rise this year. Cheers to Dave 'we're all in this together' Cameron.
My worry is, once Afghan is wound down and BFG is slimmed up, we're in for more savage cuts and breaches of the 'convenant'...stand by...