Originally Posted by
Jayand
£120 K a year for a sensor operator?????
Capitation rates as opposed to actual pay. It's a scam to make service personnel look more expensive than contractors or civil servants as it includes a bit of cash because the service provides us with SFA/SLA/messes, a bit of cash because the service provides doctors, dentists and medics etc, a bit of cash for our pension - suddenly a military employee capitates at £75K PA when a contractor can do it for £40K or a civil servant for £35K because their capitation rate includes different things(these figures were for a flt lt and are some years old so will have changed) but you can see why contractorisation appears to be a good deal - never mind the loss of flexibility, failure to deliver and loss of service ethos.